I installed Office 2003 first on a Windows XP machine.
I then installed SQL 2005 April CTP.
When I try accessing cubes from Excel, I get the error
"An error was encountered in the transport layer"
This error occurs when I try to setup the connection to my OLAP cube.
Thanks for any help you can offer
Taylor

Accessing April CTP OLAP cube from Excel 2003
Richard Blackburn
Anusuya
P.V.Shanthi
regsvr32 "%program files%\common files\system\ole db\msolap90.dll"
Matt S
I had the same error and I installed the Office Service pack 2. Even though I am still getting the error and after clicking ok for that and pointing the data source it allows me to access data.John Mark Howell
Spot on - thanks very much
Regards
Nick
Thanh Duong
I have also installed "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Analysis Services 9.0" and I registered msolap90.dll and unregistered msolap80.dll and none of this helped.
Maybe other DLL's have this msolap80.dll as default written somwhere
Does any one have any other ideas Many thanks for any help you could give me.
Hint: The connection works fine when I try it on a brand new machine with Windows XP & Office 2002 SP2 (and OLEDB 9.0). It is not working at all with "old" computer where OLEDB8.0 was installed before.
LFLFM
Thomas B
I'm still having trouble with this as I still get the error.
I have XML6.0 installed, OLE DB 9.0 installed but I still get the error when trying to connect to the OLAP server. Anymore ideas
Thanks
zespri
In SQL2000 you could extract ptsfull.exe or ptslite.exe from the distribution disks and run these on the client to install OLAP 8.0 without installing the whole SQL Client tools suite. Pivot table services would then work in Excel against a SQL2000 Analysis Services database.
Try as I might I can't find these files on the SQL2005 distribution disks. Have they been renamed or is this approach no longer supported Being able to install OLAP 9.0 on clients would be very useful.
Has anyone discovered the secret to this yet
Regards
Nick
jarda.jirava
Hi
I have the same problem and i did the solotion to registe the olap 9.0.dll and it don't resolve my problems. Do you know why.
Thank you for your help.
jjoravec
Hi,
I've the same problem and this solution has changed anything.
Please help me!!!!!!!!
PeterSpanien
You can install OLE DB 9.0 via a download from MS. I think this is what you are asking.... I found it at the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=d09c1d60-a13c-4479-9b91-9e8b9d835cdc&displaylang=en
I downloaded the file called "SQLServer2005_ASOLEDB9.msi".
You can also get to the same page by googling Analysis Services OLE DB 9.0 if the link fails. In addtion to installing this, I also had to install XML6.0 first. The installer for OLE DB 9.0 will let you know if this is needed. The XML 6.0 upgrade is also available on MS site though I was only able to locate through a Google search looking for "XML 6.0 download". I then pulled down the install called "msxml6.msi".
Hope this helps!