I ran into a new Kerberos Scenario that I hadn’t hit before when I was working on the cases related to this blog post . It’s rare that I actually see a case related to the Named Pipes protocol.  When I do, it is usually a customer trying to get it setup with a Cluster deployment.  I have never...

I’m always amazed that issues usually come in batches.  I was looped into a few cases that had the following symptoms.   They were running SharePoint 2010 and Reporting Services 2012 SP1.  When they went to use a data source with Windows Authentication, they were seeing the following...

I was recently going through an exercise of documenting how to discover certain aspects of Reporting Services for some Kerberos work.  RS 2012 in SharePoint is a totally different game though.  The easiest way I could discover certain items about Reporting Services within SharePoint was with...

I was setting up my SharePoint 2013 server to be able to use an Excel 2013 workbook that had a Power View Report in it.  However, when I tried opening the workbook, I got the following error: In the ULS logs of my SharePoint server that had RS installed on it, I saw the following: Microsoft.ReportingServices...

I had an interesting case that was presented to me by our friends in the SharePoint support team.  The issue was that when they go to use a Data Source for Reporting Services that is set to use Windows Authentication, they saw the following: Within the SharePoint ULS logs we see the following: Throwing...

I worked a case today where they were trying to get SQL 2012 Reporting Services installed in a SharePoint environment that also had SQL 2008 R2 PowerPivot installed.  This, by itself, is fine and wasn’t really causing the problem.  When they tried to open the Excel Workbook from SharePoint...

While setting up a SharePoint 2010 environment with Reporting Services 2012, I hit an interesting error. To explain my setup, this is a Classic Mode Auth site with Kerberos enabled for the site. I had verified that I had the proper accounts configured and Kerberos Configuration in place. Also, knowing...

SharePoint 2010 introduced a new authentication architecture called Claims Based Authentication SharePoint Claims-Based Identity http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee535242.aspx When using Claims Based Authentication for your SharePoint site, in order for authentication to flow between services...

I've had some questions in the past regarding Reporting Services Integration with SharePoint. For this post, I'm going to focus on SharePoint 2010. I'm also going to assume that you already have a SharePoint Farm setup. The examples I'm going to use will be a full SharePoint Cloud, but the steps will...

When creating a new document library within SharePoint you have a few options.  You can just create a new Document Library, or you can go to More Options and choose Report Library.     When you choose Report Library, by default, it will allow you to create a report, but still will not...

Updated 10/29/09:  Added section describing SQL Engine only servers at the bottom.   Brian Hartman did a great job outlining what the GDR is and why we had it.  You can read it here .  I’m not going to rehash that here.  What I wanted to do is outline some of the scenarios involving...

I ran across an interesting issue when trying to install the Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint on a Windows 2008 server.  We would get the error listed above when trying to install the Add-in.  We choose repair on the Add-in component.  It got to the point of removing backup files...