Yesterday migration of our main OLAP server from MS Analysis’s Services 2005 to 2008 R2 was (more or less) uneventful experience, we thought installing “SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio” on developers desktops running Windows 7 x64 would be as dull as migration itself. That was not the case. It took us almost half a day troubleshooting error that prevented us to open any Cubes in our migrated databases from developer workstation. Every attempt was greeted with the error “Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program”.

Configuration of the workstation looks like this:

1. Windows 7 Enterprise (x64)
2. Oracle client 11gR2 (32-bit)
3. MS Office 2010 (32-bit)
4. MS SQL Server BI Studio 2008 R2 (32-bit)
5. HW: Fujitsu Esprimo Workstation with iCore5 and 8GB of RAM

Everything patched to the maximum possible level as of May-21-2013. My first assumption was that something related to x64 vs. x86 miss-match between installed components is preventing VS shell to open the cube, but how if all components that need to work together are 100% 32-bit!?
After I dismissed my initial hunch and some other miss-trials, I did what every self respecting systems engineer does in such situation. I went to seek some intimacy in my “cubicle”, then when no one was looking I opened the Chrome and asked Google for help. Typical day in the life of SE, don’t you think?
At last I found a post from Jerry Nee in this thread, pointing to Microsoft Download Center where we can download “Office 2003 Add-in: Office Web Components” needed by MS BI Studio 2008R2 to browse the cubes. After I installed owc11.exe on developer’s workstation browsing cubes was at last possible.
Many thanks to Chief Software Architects at Microsoft. Keep up with your work, as long as you’re doing your job as you do, I’m not worried to loose mine.