December 23, 2003 02:23 PM

Analysis Services Security and HTTP

Deploy an Internet-accessible OLAP solution
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Have you ever needed to set up Analysis Services in a multidomain network environment? Have you needed to provide access to your Analysis Services server through a firewall? If so, you probably needed to choose an alternative security configuration. By default, Analysis Services uses integrated authentication, which requires your users to be on the same domain as the server; so the default security option won't work if your users are on a different domain. Fortunately, Analysis Services supports...

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Russ, I have real trouble making this work in practise. We have a website which prompts the user for ther

mark1/21/2004 11:45:41 AM


Good article. One of our challenges with MSAS security has been to determine how to get "Analysis Manager" application to connect to an Analysis Server using HTTP security. In Analysis Manager, when you try to register a new server, it seems to automatically take your windows credential and start locating the server by machine name (it specifically states that "You cannot register an Analysis server by specifying its IP address"). Although one could argue that it is actually a feature to restrict administrative tasks within the same domain only, it does pose difficulty to implement remote administration.

Sandeep Giri 1/6/2004 2:44:43 PM


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