FILE: Ptssetup.exe Sample Automatically Downloads and Installs OLAP Client (312876)

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Use of Ptssetup.exe reduces the maintenance problem of making sure that all clients have the correct version of the OLAP client installed.

The Ptssetup.htm file first checks to see if MDAC 2.6 is installed. If MDAC 2.6 is not present on the computer, then Ptssetup.exe downloads the Ptsfull.exe application and executes Ptsfull.exe on the client computer. If MDAC 2.6 is present on the computer, but not the initial version of PTS, then Ptssetup.exe downloads and installs the PTslite.exe application.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Release Date: FEB-15-2002


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The Ptssetup.exe file contains the following files:

File	Size
Cube.jpg	59 KB
Ptssetup.htm	5 KB

How to Setup Ptssetup.exe

1. Unzip Ptssetup.exe and place the Ptssetup.htm and Cube.jpg files into a Web folder under INetPub\WWWroot.
2. In the same folder you used in step 1, paste a copy of Ptsfull.exe and Ptslite.exe from the latest Service Pack or release. You can find Ptsfull.exe and Ptslite.exe in the Msolap\Install\PTS folder on the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Service Pack for Microsoft Analysis Services CD>
3. For Microsoft Internet Explorer, copy Ptssetup.htm.

Modifications

You can modify the script in the Ptssetup.htm page to check for different versions of MDAC or the OLAP client by modifying the following lines:

NOTE: The following line checks for MDAC 2.60. However, if you modify "#Version=", you can have the program check for a different version of MDAC.

document.all.installPTS.outerHTML = "<OBJECT id=installPTSFull classid=\"CLSID:00000514-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4\" style=\"display=none\" codebase=\"ptsfull.exe#Version=2,60,0,0\"></OBJECT>"
				

The following line checks for version 8.0.167, which is the initial release of the OLAP client. If you change "#Version=" to 8,0,3,84, the program checks for the SP1 version of PTS:

document.all.installPTS.outerHTML = "<OBJECT id=installPTSlite classid=\"CLSID:a07ccd0c-8148-11d0-87bb-00c04fc33942\" style=\"display=none\"    codebase=\"ptslite.exe#Version=8,0,1,67\"></OBJECT>";