I don't know but the question is does it matter? There is no MSDB database to query the backup information from, you can't change the recovery model etc. There is...

Hi,
The way I achieved this was
Two subscriptions. One which places an excel version of the report onto a network share and the other which places a html version...

Have you checked that the user for the data source has select permission on the ServiceRequired object in the referenced database?

But we are still limited - to a max path of 260 characters. At least in Windows 7 - maybe it has changed in Windows 10.

A SQL agent job will usually run under either the SQL Agent Service account (if the job owner is a sysadmin) or under the job owners account. 
In best practice...

As Thom A says either delete the data after it has been created or set the Copy Data property of the Transfer task to be False so only the objects...

Actually as the questions asks for minimum number of.. and also asks for a single cube then the answer isn't "it depends".
The answer is as follows (assuming I can...

Check out this article, it should be able to help you.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sql/virtual-machines-windows-sql-performance

Yes I have always used two data disks on as well...

Best practices from what I can remember previously are:
Minimum of 2 disks - ideally Premium - 1 for logs and 1 for data and temp db.
Enable read caching...