OLAP Connectivity

Hello all,

We have Analysis Services 2000 with an OLAP cube. The cube has a role allowing access to all Windows domain users. From my development workstation we can connect to the cube, using Excel or a HTML page with the Office Web component, logged on as any user. However, from any other computer in the domain, and logged on with the same users, we cannot create a connection; the OLAP server is not visible!

The client computers are all the same: Windows 2000 Pro and the users all belong to the domain.

Why can we not connect? Has anybody ever experienced this sort of problem? We need to solve this by Monday, our deadline to show our OLAP application to the users. I would really appreciate somebody's help.

Thanks in advance,

Jerome Smith

Have all other workstations pivot table services installed, that is the local client that SSAS 2000 requires? It muste be the same version(service pack) as the server.

It is not sufficient with Excel installed on each client, you also need pivot table services.

You can download this add in for Excel: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DAE82128-9F21-475D-88A4-4B6E6C069FF0&displaylang=en

HTH

Thomas Ivarsson

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Hello Thomas,

I thought that PTS was included in Office. At least that's what the manual for the MS-2074 course says, and I have always been able to connect to Analysis Servers from Excel and FrontPage, and in different companies.

The download you referred me to is actually not PTS but the Excel Add-In for Analysis Services, which affords enhanced functionality but does not solve the problem.

What I really need to do is connect to the OLAP cube from a HTML page with the OLAP web component, included in Office and also in FrontPage.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

Jerome Smith

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Like I have told you earlier, PTS is not installed by default. Install it on the machines that do not work and see if this helps.

The download of the Excel add in will include PTS.

If you are trying to do a http-connection then it is a different story. Office web components are ActiveX and do not use http by default.

Regards

Thomas Ivarsson

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OK Thomas,

I'll try this.

Thanks,

Jerome

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Good luck. If this is not the problem return with more information and we can continue with other causes.

Regards

Thomas Ivarsson

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Hi Thomas,

Well, actually I managed to deploy the application on almost all client PCs WITHOUT installing PTS. Just as I thought, PTS comes included with Office, so it is almost never necessary to install PTS.

The problem was never solved on some developer's notebooks in the IT department; we couldn't connect to the AS Server, no matter what we did (including installing the Add-In from the link you gave me).

It beats me why. I wish I knew. Any ideas?

Jerome

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