SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell v5 Cookbook

Listing SSAS instance properties

We will list SSAS instance properties in this recipe.

How to do it...

Let's explore the code required to list SSAS instance properties:

1. Open PowerShell ISE as an administrator.
2. Import the SQLASCmdlets module as follows:

   Import-Module SQLASCmdlets -DisableNameChecking

3. Add the following script and run it:

   #Connect to your Analysis Services server 
   $SSASServer = New-Object Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Server
   
   $instanceName = "localhost"
   $SSASServer.connect($instanceName)
   
   #get all properties
   $SSASServer | 
   Select-Object *

   You will see a result similar to this:

   

How it works...

To get SSAS instance properties, we first need to load the ...