Now that we have a basic understanding of what Analysis Cubes for Excel is as well as the components that make up the Analysis Cubes environment, we will now walk through the installation process for the Analysis Cubes for Excel. The installation of Analysis Cubes for Excel is actually a quite simple product to install, but it is also very dependent on having the proper permissions to perform the installation as well as completing steps in a particular order. The installation process is made up of the following three steps:
Before proceeding with our installation of the Analysis Cubes, we need to review our Pre-installation checklist.
Review system requirements for server components – This includes determining which of the deployment configurations discussed earlier in this chapter we will be using in our environment...