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SAS Enterprise guide & Remote Desktop connection

Swati__ — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 18:22:38 GMT

Hi all,

I am very new to this tool & have been fiddling through this tool for couple of weeks. Previously, I used SAS EG 6.1 version installed on my local desktop, but the license expired & we moved to the one where SAS 9.4 is installed on a remote desktop. I have certain questions related to the PC version & the remote desktop version:

After installing the SA 9.4 on the remote desktop, is there any use for the SAS which is installed on my local drive?
Also, what does it mean by connecting the local pc version of SAS to the server version?
How does metadata server come in place?

I am trying to get my thoughts clear around how SAS works. It would really helpful if any of you could help me understand this.

I really appreciate it. Thanks!!

Re: SAS Enterprise guide & Remote Desktop connection

jakarman — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 19:28:47 GMT

Using a remote desktop for SAS and not your common working environment is saying your it - staff does not want to support SAS or SAS sales failed to get it aligned to your i IT policies. Getting a remote desktop is an isolated desktop not connected to your common working environment.

Eguide is a very advanced client that can connect to a SAS session on every type of server where it has been made available.

The local connection of Eguide is connecting to a sas session running on the same desktop as Eguide. You could see and try that als the old fashioned SAS base on your desktop with a lot of enhancements.

It is possible to run Eguide against an object spawner on a server. That one will start the needed sas session. In a bi di server environment that objectspawner is managed by the metadata server.