Comments on: SSAS Server Cant See Its Own Cubes in SSMS

By: Aaron Nelson

Aaron Nelson — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:54:03 +0000

Vidas and Edward,

Thanks for the info! In my infinite spare time this weekend < / sarcasm> I’m going to build out a new VM and see if I can reproduce it that way.

Vidas Matelis — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:33:19 +0000

I got answer on your issue from Edward Melomed (Microsoft):

“I would guess after all this does has to do with security.
But with Windows security – UAC.

If you skip step in the setup where it asked you to add current user to AS server admin role, then you would need to run SSMS as administrator.

Why BIDS works- I think Visual Studio gets exception from UAC. It always runs with admin privileges.”

And you already confirmed that running SSMS as administrator helped.

Edward Melomed — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:15:16 +0000

I would guess this has to do with Windows security – UAC.

If you skip step in the setup where it asked you to add current user to AS server admin role, then you would need to run SSMS as administrator.

HTH.
Edward Melomed