Recently, I experienced an issue trying to get a new installation of Microsoft Excel 2016 to connect to SQL Server 2014 Analysis Services Multidimensional. Whether I would try to connect directly from Excel, via the “From Other Sources” menu or via the Cube Browser in SQL Server Management Studio, I would receive an error that Excel was unable to connect to the database.
I verified that the service was running, firewall not blocking it, and credentials good. Read on for the solution to this issue.
