Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Application Exception "Unexpected Error occoured" when opening Calculation tab in SSAS 2005

When trying to view the calculation tab or the KPI tab in Analysis Services 2005 you might run into the following error (which really says nothing):
Application Exception - "Unexpected Error Occoured."

In my search for the reason to this I came by the following thread at the MSDN forums:

IMPORTANT: "Unexpected Error occured" When trying to view calculations tab - MSDN Forums

Looks like the installation of Office 2007 by mistake overwrites the two files msmdlocal.dll and msmgdsrv.dll in the folder %programfiles%\Common Files\System\Ole DB\ with an older version

However you can find the right versioned files in this folder: %programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\

After replacing the files - you restart SSAS and the tabs are both working again..

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you. This was just what I needed; the problem was indeed the Office 2007 install over Analysis Services and Visual Studion 2005.

Donna Kelly

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU!!!!!

Anonymous said...

A VERY BIG THANKS!!!! - It saved my time to reinstall VS2005 (I was about to do that even though there was no gurantee that it would resolve the issue!!)

Krishna

Anonymous said...

Thanks a bunch! Saved a couple of hours for me!

Best.

Anonymous said...

Thanks!
This worked fine!

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much for your help.
At last, I can create calculations and KPIs. Fantastic!

Pavel

chandra said...

Thanks a lot. This was driving me NUTS!!!!

Anonymous said...

Thanks. This was driving me crazy and I was about to miss a deadline.

Anonymous said...

THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU!

alangham said...

worked like a charm. thanks so much!

Anonymous said...

Thanks - this worked with no problems.

Matt