Friday, January 20, 2012

Excel Reporting - Provide access to TFS Analysis Services

For excel reporting using TFS 2010 cubes (Analysis Services), the users requires read access on Analysis Services.

Here are the steps to provide access to Analysis Services.

Step 1: Connect Analysis Services using the admin account

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Step 2: Go to Roles and open up the TFSWarehouseDataReader group. If you do not see one you can create one.

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Step 3: Here is TFSWarehouseDataReader role persmission

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Step 4: Open up the Membership node and add the user/NT group for access

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2 comments:

  1. Hi.

    Can you explain how to get "server type: analysis services" from sql server? i don't seem to have this option.

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  2. Do you have Analysis Services installed on the SQL Server box?

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