{"id":4140,"date":"2017-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:15:21","slug":"connect-excel-to-an-azure-analysis-services-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/connect-excel-to-an-azure-analysis-services-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect Excel to an Azure Analysis Services server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can connect to Azure Analysis Services from <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/connecting-power-bi-to-an-azure-analysis-services-server\/\">Power BI<\/a>, Excel and many other third party client tools. This blog will focus on how to connect to your Azure Analysis Services server from Microsoft Excel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before getting started, you\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">A data model deployed at an Azure Analysis Services server \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/first-azure-as\/\">Creating your first data model in Azure Analysis Services<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Microsoft Excel \u2013 <em>If you have the latest version of Excel 2016 from Office 365, you do not need to install any additional updates. For non Office 365 or older versions of Excel, the <a title=\"MSOLAP.7 provider\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/analysis-services\/analysis-services-data-providers\">MSOLAP.7 provider<\/a> is required.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">In Excel 2016, on the <strong>Data<\/strong> ribbon, click <strong>Get External Data<\/strong> &gt; <strong>From Other Sources<\/strong> &gt; <strong>From Analysis Services<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><p>In the Data Connection Wizard, in <strong>Server name<\/strong>, enter the name of your Azure Analysis Services server. Then, in <strong>Logon credentials<\/strong>, select <strong>Use the following User Name and Password<\/strong>, and then type the organizational user name, for example nancy@adventureworks.com, and password.<\/p><br><figure><img alt=\"Connect in Excel logon\"><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><p>In <strong>Select Database and Table<\/strong>, select the database and model or perspective, and then click <strong>Finish<\/strong>.<\/p><br><figure><img alt=\"Connect in Excel select model\"><\/figure><br><figure><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/26ead2de-8cba-4cfd-a13e-aa4721ad30e2.webp\" alt=\"image\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/figure><br><p>A pivot table will be created and you will now see your field list on the side. 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