SSAS Deployment essentials

Over the recent years i have enjoyed the privilege of working on a number of different SSAS deployments. Some are huge, some are complex and some of them are huge and complex and most interestingly they all behave differently.

What i want to share today is what i consider to be essential for an SSAS installation. This covers what i expect to see installed to compliment SSAS, configuration settings to be changed and the literature that should be at your finger tips.