Category	Discontinued Feature	Comments
Connection string properties	Mining Execution Location	Accepted for backward compatibility, but is ignored. Execution is always on the server.
Connection string properties	Mining Location
Connection string properties	Log File	The Log File feature is replaced by the Trace feature.
Connection string properties	Execution Location
Connection string properties	Distinct Measures by Key
Connection string properties	Large Level Threshold
Features	Aggregated Providers	This feature is replaced by plug-in algorithms.
Features	Linked Cubes	This feature is replaced by linked measure groups.
Features	Custom Level Formulas	This feature is replaced by Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) scripts.
Features	Cube and Database Role Commands	No longer supported.
MDX	CreateVirtualDimension	This MDX function is no longer supported.
MDX	CreatePropertySet	This MDX function is no longer supported.
MDX	Ignore	In SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, this function was reserved for future use.
Other	Active Directory Registration
Other	Skipped levels in parent-child hierarchies	The SkippedLevelsColumnproperty, which indicates how many levels to skip when creating a member under a parent in a parent-child hierarchy, is no longer supported.
Tools	Surface Area Configuration Tool	The Surface Area Configuration Tool is discontinued for SQL Server 2008. For more information, see Backward Compatibility.