Comments on: Reporting Services on Windows Vista Redux

By: James Kovacs

James Kovacs — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:03:33 +0000

@Minglin – I honestly haven’t touched Reporting Services in quite awhile. I haven’t tried it at all on Windows Server 2008. I would recommend asking on the SQL Server Reporting Services Forum:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/threads

By: Minglin Zhou

Minglin Zhou — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:56:27 +0000

Hi, James,
I am still seeing a blank page when I go to http://localhost/reports I installed SQL Reporting service on Windows 2008 server. Can you help please?

By: Carl Scarlett

Carl Scarlett — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:58:03 +0000

Hi James,

I’ve had the same problems with the blank screen on SSRS 2008 on Vista Home Premium with multiple users. The elevated security in IE didn’t do the trick.

In the end I had to disable UAC to gain access the manager. The BUILTIN\Administrators only had the Content Manager role, so I added all the others. I also added my own user (DOMAIN\Username) with all roles. I then enabled UAC once more. This corrected the problem.

I wonder if Windows 7 will be affected like this. I love Vista, but sometimes I feel I have to work as hard as a Linux guy to get things to work properly! *smirk*

Carl

By: Eyal Shacham

Eyal Shacham — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:02:24 +0000

Hi James, I installed SSRS 2008 with Vist hme premium. No luck. Even with elevated security IE does not display the seting and properties in the report manager. Could you post screenshots of the ssrs conf (which accounts used for which services and SQL connection to the db? Also, should I define a new Login in SQL db?

By: James Kovacs

James Kovacs — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:06:30 +0000

@Barry – I believe what Microsoft is trying to protect against is the spread of malware once it gets into your intranet. You can always disable protected mode for intranet sites by going into IE… Internet Security and changing the option for Local intranet. (I would guess you can do this through group policy too, though I haven’t checked.) Microsoft is opting for secure by default and only disabling protected mode for sites that you explicitly trust.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:57:03 +0000

Huh?! "Enable Protected Mode" is disabled for Trusted Sites. (It should be enabled for Internet/Local intranet/Restricted sites.)"

Protected mode should be enabled for INTERnet, but not "intranet" – right? I mean, am I protecting ME from mySELF?
"INTRAnet" means ‘inside,’ means "Even a Caveman can browse safely without protected mode."
Or… am I misunderstanding. My understandning (and in the environments in which I’ve worked) is that "intranet" typically is equivalent to "all trusted servers on my local network and/or subnet;" i.e., no need for protected mode.

Again, I may be misunderstanding, or you may have been on drugs when you made that statement about "intranet" also needing to have ‘protected mode’ enabled.

Please let me know if I misundestood/stand. Thx.

By: James Kovacs

James Kovacs — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:33:09 +0000

@Peter – Your understanding of UAC is correct. UAC strips your user token of the local Administrators group SID as well as a few admin-related privileges. When making role assignments, you should specify the account name, which is likely a domain account, in domain\username form. Did you add your user to the correct SQL Server management groups? By default with SQL Server 2005 SP2, local admins are not by default SQL Server admins.

By: Peter Wone

Peter Wone — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:12:16 +0000

Hi James.

Elevating IE works for me but adding localhost/reports to trusted sites doesn’t, even though the browser specifically reports that protected mode is off (as per your illustration). Turning off UAC works, but that’s highly undesirable for obvious reasons.

A question on UAC: do I correctly understand that UAC means I run the user account I specified at logon (a domain account) but my token lacks the local admin privilege? I’m uncertain as to what I should specify when making a role assignment: username, domain\username or machinename\username
Any thoughts?

By: James Kovacs

James Kovacs — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:02:49 +0000

@Vishal – I haven’t tried out SQL Server 2008 or SSRS 2008. I suspect that SSRS 2008 needs to store its databases in the SQL Server 2008 database engine. I would recommend asking your question in the Reporting Services MSDN Forum:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=82&SiteID=1

By: Vishal

Vishal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:16:03 +0000

I am using Vista Home Premium.
I installed SSRS 2008 and trying to create reports database on SQL server 2005 but its saying that

The feature :"Using other editions of SQL Server for report data sources and/or the report server database" is not supported in this edition of Reporting Services.