OSIsoft PI with Office 2010: Should you upgrade to Office 2010?
5/26/2010 Posted by: Rich Winslow

The following information is from 5/26/2010 and OSIsoft will be releasing new upgrades, so this content is only valid for the timeframe between now and the releases that address the issues identified here.

I needed PI System Management Tools add-in to Excel (SMT) to work on some PI tags. I went to the ...

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Category PI Development Tags Datalink and Excel 2010 SMT and Excel 2010 PI and Excel 2010
OSIsoft PI Archive Merging Too Slow
5/4/2010 Posted by: Rich Winslow

When combining 2 PI systems, you will merge the data from the retiring PI system into a production PI system using the PIARCHSS (offline PI archive subsystem tool). If the retiring archive is large and/or the production archive is large, the offline processing of archives can become infinitely slow due to ...

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Category PI Administration Tags PI Archive Merge Slow archive merge
OSIsoft PI Administrator Tools
5/4/2010 Posted by: Rich Winslow

OSIsoft PI is a data historian that can record the values of key process and production metrics over time. A user can monitor values real time and can look back in time to review prior values. Data can be displayed in a tabular form or graphically with a historical trend ...

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Category PI Administration Tags PI Administration OSIsoft PI archive PIArchSS PI Administrator Tools PIArTool PIArCreate PI Tools
Creating a Test Version of Your Production PI System
3/30/2010 Posted by: Rich Winslow
Although it doesn't quite fit with OSIsoft PI server licensing, there are times when it is useful to create a second copy of your production PI server:
- Verify that your backups are good by fully restoring your PI system on totally separate box.
- Offsite development of PI where the remote ...
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Category PI Administration Tags Test PI backup Copy a PI database Clone a PI server
Is Attending the OSIsoft 2010 User Conference Cost Effective?
3/21/2010 Posted by: Rich Winslow
I went to my first OSI PI User Conference in 1996. I was a new user and wanted to understand the product and where to focus my effort and the User Conference helped me to do that, but the conference offered much more:
- Learning new techniques and functions, ways to ...
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Category PI Development Tags Annual PI Conference What's New with PI PI User Conference OSIsoft 2010 User Conference
Unable to start OSISoft PI server on Window 7, access denied
3/17/2010 Posted by: Rich Winslow

With the Vista, Windows 2008, and Windows 7 operating systems, the UAC (user access control) layer prevents the manually startup of the OSIsoft PI Application's windows services because administrator privileges are required. Thus if you execute a command prompt (Run and CMD) from a standard user account, then fire off the C:\PI\adm\PISrvStart.bat command, you will ...

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