Jim_Toland, I believe so, i am the sysadmin and SQL Server running just on a pc, i am using SQL 2017 BTW. Can you confrim for the Windows account what setting i should have, I am the sysadmin, and can run profiler ok. I managed to "resolve" the issue by using a Sql server account and managed to get the trc file finally. Now Step 2 (replay), again i am using the same SA like account. This plays the trace but doesn't produce any replay results. It kept going for 24 mins when my capture was for only 5min. Then i stopped it to see if anything happened. I did get some long xel files but not no other trc files. Step 3 (reporting) i decided to use the same trc file for both sections to see if i will get anything. I am using the same SA like username. You mention analysis database, we don't need an SSAS database or something? Unfortunately i cannot supply you any screenshots to explain better. Do i have basically use Windows authentication for all 3 steps and should give up on the SA like account which seemed to have fix some of the issues? Also your documentation doesn't appear to be for latest version 2.6. Also same for the video tutorial on channel9. Any extra help appreciated. Thank you again.