You are very correct on my trying to do it using SSMS instead of SSIS. I had just learned that you can view an existing SSIS package through SSMS by using "Connect to... Analysis Services", but it doesn't seem you can create one that way, so I made things worse by running down the wrong path at first. :/

I am currently going through your tutorial and making progress (Up to Step 4 now! 🙂 ) and taking notes that I will post here when I'm through the whole thing.

One tiny gotcha I ran into using the database backup you supplied: The backup seems to be in the state of "after going through the tutorial" - found that dbo.Contact was already there which threw me for a couple minutes when the tutorial tried to create that table. No big deal once I figured that out, deleted dbo.Contact and was able to keep going.

Thank you in advance for a tutorial focusing purely on SSIS, all the rest out there seem to introduce SSIS at the same time as cubing/mining (Also new to me) which is too much to process at one time.