Installing TM1 64-bit 10.1.1 on Windows 7

[CapAmerica]

Hi i'm new to TM1 and i've looked through the forum and have been unable to find an info on installing the TM1 64-bit 10.1.1 on Windows 7. I'm looking to also create my own local TM1 server on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine as well as installing the TM1 applications such as Web, Perspectives and etc. Now can someone please point me to a step by step doc in which can help me with the install. I also have MS Excel 2010. Thanks!

TM1Newbie

[Alan Kirk]

Hi i'm new to TM1 and i've looked through the forum and have been unable to find an info on installing the TM1 64-bit 10.1.1 on Windows 7. I'm looking to also create my own local TM1 server on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine as well as installing the TM1 applications such as Web, Perspectives and etc. Now can someone please point me to a step by step doc in which can help me with the install. I also have MS Excel 2010. Thanks!

The FAQ thread contains links to the TM1 documentation, including downloadable .pdf copies of the documents. This includes the TM1 Installation and Configuration document.

Although not an officially supported environment for the server, there is nothing particularly difficult about installing it on 64 bit Windows 7 (preferably Ultimate) as long as you run the install as an Administrator.

(Well, yes, OK, I will add one or two caveats. You need to leave plenty of time for the bloated pig of a thing to copy a couple of gig of help files in languages that you'll never even see, much less speak or read, to your hard disk drive. And if necessary you may need to let it install the Java Auto-Contamination Engine so that you can run the shiny new TM1 Applications. (No, not those "TM1 Applications", the other "TM1 Applications" which are completely different things with the same name.) That of course also gives you the opportunity to get daily (or is it hourly now?) updates from Oracle to fix the latest gaping security holes in Java. At which time Oracle will try to sneak some form of cr@pware onto your PC, a "feature" which gave rise to one of the most incisive quotes in modern computing journalism:

If you're installing a critical security update on your computer, caused by the software vendor's sloppy code quality, you probably wouldn't dream that your software vendor is trying to make some money out of the inconvenience.

And yet that's exactly what Oracle seems to be up to with its (sadly necessarily frequent) security updates for Java.

Aside from that (oh, and reading the documentation carefully with regard to how you need to configure Web under the newer version of IIS, and how you need to manually uninstall previous versions yourself because the installer won't do it, and how you need to manually update your Path environment variable if you're using the API since IBM has yet again changed the default install path of the application) but if you get past all of that... then it's actually quite easy.

No, seriously, I have actually done it. And it works. Just don't look too closely at the state of the walls in my study or the bootmarks on them.)

[CapAmerica]

Alan Kirk -

Thank you so much for the links and documentation, this is very helpful! Also, thank you for the heads up in regards to install and configuration, hoping this will start me off in the right steps with the install. After that i'm sure i'll be doing a lot more research within the forum and even posting more questions I may have on TM1. Thanks!

TM1Newbie