Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

Michael Sandor — Wed, 02 May 2007 08:32:51 GMT

Thanks for the info !! I have been trying this unsuccessfully many times, like a fly banging into a window

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

Michael Sandor — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:25:47 GMT

After applying all of your recommendations I cannot get SRS to work on Vista Premium. Will the Vista "Ultimate" run SRS in SQL 2005 ExpressADV SP2 ??

Thanks for your insights.

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

Chris — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:12:51 GMT

Same thing, here. I used WindowsAnytimeUpdate.com to purchase and install Vista Ultimate. Upon the completion of the install and reboot, I noticed that Windows Authentication was now listed as an IIS option; however, all of the IIS options I had previously installed were no longer installed.

I installed all of the IIS options listed in that blog entry--which match the list of required options in MSKB 920201, BTW. Next, I re-ran SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services SP2. The System Configuration Check displayed the same warning about IIS being disabled or not being installed. I continued with the install anyway. Sure enough, the Feature Selection list did not display Reporting Services as an option. On the plus side: At least it no longer listed Reporting Services as an option, let me select it, and then not install it without any error message!

So at this point, I still haven't been able to install Reporting Services. Any other ideas?

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

Chris — Thu, 03 May 2007 07:07:17 GMT

I upgraded from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate earlier today, but I still can't get Reporting Services installed. I selected all of the IIS features that you itemized (including Windows Authentication), but Reporting Services doesn't even show up in the Feature Selection list during the SQL Server install.

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

Jason — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:56:14 GMT

Actually, I have Reporting Services running on Vista Premium.

Not the best solution, but it got me back to developing locally again.

I had to give my user account full folder permsissions on the reporting services PHYSICAL directories. ie: C:\Progra~1\Microsoft Sql Server\MSSQL.2\Reporting Services\ReportServer.

Worked like a charm and saved me a one time upgrade cost.

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

Jason — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:58:53 GMT

Sorry - forgot to mention that I enabled basic authentication on the IIS7 VD's

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

Wayne Stuber — Sat, 12 May 2007 20:58:02 GMT

I'm having that same problem trying to install SQL 2005 Developer Edition on Vista Enterprise. I went so far as to turn on every single install feature checkbox under IIS. SQL Setup still says IIS is missing.

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

Wen — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:35:46 GMT

"I have Reporting Services running on Vista Premium."

Jason, I trying to try your solution, but before I can do that, how did you get Reporting Services to install on Home Premium? Setup won't allow me to select Reporting Services. Is there a way to force setup to install Reporting Services?

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

Keith Dold — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:15:46 GMT

Just wanted to say thanks for this insightful post. I was about to pull my hair out to look for why Developer Edition would not install SSRS on my Vista Ultimate box until I found this post. It worked wonderfully. Thanks again.

How to install SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on a Windows Vista-based computer

Prologika (Teo Lachev's Weblog) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:20:14 GMT

I spent a couple of hours today trying to get SSRS 2005 working on Vista. I was getting the infamous

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

OferGal — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:17:10 GMT

I did all that and when running http://localhost/reports/ I still get:

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ReportingServices.Interfaces' or one of its dependencies. The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))

I have vista Ultimate and I connect to a domain.

re: Candy Apple Grey (Installing SSRS and Windows Vista)

milos2008 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:22:14 GMT

Hi,

I have Vista Home Premium only. I have found a solution of sorts. I have installed SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 only (not database engine as well) and created the ReportServer database on my SQL Server 2005 instance using the SSRS 2008 Configuration Manager. Then I have followed the instructions on this page http://www.jameskovacs.com/blog/ReportingServicesOnWindowsVistaRedux.aspx to fix security issues.

And now reporting services runs without having to upgrade Vista. Although it does seem to run VERY slowly. Not sure why but does work. Have just deployed a report from BIDS and run it in Report Manager.

Cheers