OLAP Client - your suggestions

Hello,

I am trying to Upgrade my AS 2000 to AS 2005 but end up hitting wall. Our clients is Excel 2002/2003 on Windows 2000 OS. I managed to convince group about advantage to moving AS 2005. At last I managed to convince advantage to moving Excel 2007 which added new project of upgrading office 2007 in selected workstations. Then I find out we can not install Excel 2007 in Windows 2000. Upgrading Clients workstations to XP is too much to ask for, so whole thing end up to ground zero. What you guys think what options I have. Is there any cheep out of box client/ or option of min. development which I can use in Windows 2000 workstations so that I can move on with AS 2005 migration.

I know I can still use excel 2002/2003 in client with AS 2005 but then all new features and measure groups are not coming ordered in Excel 2002/Excel2003.

Thanks for you advice,

-Ashok

This add-in can enhance ExcelXP and Excel2003 clients:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DAE82128-9F21-475D-88A4-4B6E6C069FF0&displaylang=en

It is not as good as Excel 2007 but still better than the basic functionality in these clients.

HTH

Thomas Ivarsson

Ok.. Step 2 of my clustering

I managed to successfully install the Windows clustering service on Node 1
of my active\passive setup environement on win2003.
The only thing i had done on Node 2 was install the OS and did not configure
the shared disks on the shared array...
I now powered Node 2 and wanted to go to disk management to configure those
shared disks. What am I supposed to see ? Would they be inaccessible because
Node 1 has the cluster service installed and owns this disk resource...or
should I be able to access them and configure them the same way as Node 1
with the same drive letters,etc.. and then join that node to the cluster..
Thanks
If MSCS is installed and the cluster service is running on Node 1, the disks
should be inaccessible on Node 2.
Regards,
John
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> I managed to successfully install the Windows clustering service on Node 1
> of my active\passive setup environement on win2003.
> The only thing i had done on Node 2 was install the OS and did not
configure
> the shared disks on the shared array...
> I now powered Node 2 and wanted to go to disk management to configure
those
> shared disks. What am I supposed to see ? Would they be inaccessible
because
> Node 1 has the cluster service installed and owns this disk resource...or
> should I be able to access them and configure them the same way as Node 1
> with the same drive letters,etc.. and then join that node to the cluster..
> Thanks
>