Which Edition is my Analysis Services Server?

[Darren Gosbell]

There was a question the other day on the MSDN SSAS forum asking how to find out the Edition of SSAS which is running on a given server. The answer to this question could be either Standard, Enterprise or Developer. The Object Explorer in Management Studio displays the current version next to the server name, but not the Edition.

Now at a basic level I know that this is stored as a property of the server, so you could run a DISCOVER_XML_METADATA command like the following.

DISCOVER_XML_METADATAObjectProperties*

Which returns not just the Edition, but a lot of other interesting information.

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Of course not everyone likes reading XML, so another approach would be to run a short powershell script, either using AMO directly…

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.AnalysisServices" ) > $null
$svr = new-object([Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Server])
$svr.Connect("localhost")
$svr.Edition

Or using the powerSSAS snapin (to do the same thing with a lot less typing).

add-pssnapin powerSSAS
$svr = get-ASServer localhost
$svr.Edition Or if you really want to be really boring you could right click on your server from the Object Explorer in Management Studio, choose Reports – Standard Reports – General, but that would be way too simple. :)








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