restrict local cube

Does anyone know how can we prevent users from creating offline/local cube (in Excel) from our OLAP/Analysis Service server ?
Thank you.I'm almost certain that this isn't possible. There are ways that you can make it a bit more difficult, but those will only annoy your users.

If you find some way to do this, please let me know how you went about it.

-PatP|||Deny them access to the cubes ?|||Deny them access to the cubes ?
No, users still allowed to perform live access but must be prevented from creating local (offline) cube which they can bring home.

I'm aware of a new property introduced on SQL 2000 SP3a named RESTRICTED CLIENT but not sure if it has anything to do with our need nor how to set it up.sql

Restoring the replication environment

Is it possible to restoring the master db ? This is to
restore the merge agents settings, without creating the
merge agents again? If any one got an answer for this
please reply asap.
Binoy,
replication agents and the master database are two separate issues. In
master there is sysservers and sysxlogins, both of which are relevant to the
replication setup. However, you are concerned about the merge agent jobs and
parameters which are in msdb (sysjobs, MSagent_profiles, MSagent_parameters
etc). For a good set of details on the replication backup strategy, you can
have a look in BOL for 'replication, backup and restore
operations,Strategies for Backing Up and Restoring Merge Replication'.
HTH,
Paul Ibison