remote-process

I have an SQL Server Analysis Service ( SSAS ) cube (developed with BIDS 2012 ) and I would like to give the opportunity to the users (that use cube through PowerPivot ) to process the cube in their local machines. I found some material on how to make a scheduled job on the server through Powershell or SQL Agent or SSIS but no material on remotely process the cube. Any advice? There are several possibilities to trigger a cube processing. The low level method is issuing an XMLA statement to the database containing the cube. To see how this looks like, open SQL Server Management Studio, connect

We all know and love Process.WaitForExit(). Given a pid of a process on a remote machine (created by WMI/psexec), how do I wait for it to end? Kent Boogaart Process.GetProcessById(processId, machineName).WaitForExit(); For me Process.GetProcessByID() just didn't work (it claimed it couldn't connect to the machine). This worked: public static bool WaitForProcess(int pid, string machine, TimeSpan timeout) { // busy wait DateTime start = DateTime.Now; while (IsAlive(pid, machine)) { if (start.Add(timeout).CompareTo(DateTime.Now) <= 0) return false; Thread.Sleep(1000); } return true; } public

I have several slave machines and a master machine which together run a distributed application. Processes on each slave machine have to have a GUI and network access (I think it would be called an interactive process then). For ease of use it would be nice if the master machine could start/stop the processes on those slave machines. My first idea was to use WMI and the Win32_Process class to start a remote process but upon further investigation it was reveiled that processes started this way are non-interactive and isolated, and thus cannot have any GUI. A note says that one can use Win32