Everybody (Why Leave IIS?)

SQL Server 2008: Reporting Services no longer needs IIS?

Euan Garden's BLOG — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:52:56 GMT

Title says it all, but is this really a feature you can benefit from or is it some piece of random engineering

SSRS 2008 Is IIS-Free

Andy Leonard — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:19:08 GMT

Microsoft has severed the IIS dependency for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) in the 2008 version,

re: Everybody (Why Leave IIS?)

burt0010 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:55:47 GMT

Will Forms Authentication still be available?

SQL Server Reporting 2008 не будет зависить от IIS

MSSQL — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:02:14 GMT

Появилась пара источников в сети (http://blogs.msdn.com/bwelcker/archive/2007/12/04/everybody-why-leave-iis.aspx...

re: Everybody (Why Leave IIS?)

bwelcker — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:20:36 GMT

Yes, custom authentication (including forms) will work the same way as RS 2005.

re: Everybody (Why Leave IIS?)

jcnovoa — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:40:06 GMT

I still think that if this is the route MSSQLRS is to take on RTM, then IIS should be aware of the port and virtual directory used by reporting services and vice-versa. As of the February 2008 CTP, you can create a virtual directory in ISS that uses the same port and virtual directory as reporting services, yet it will only serve the content if reporting services is off.

I also feel the RS Report Manager and Web Service URL administration snap-in feature set is incomplete. I would like to set credentials by which to run the site under, and even have access to defining the application pool within the same interface, similar to what IIS 6/7 have available. I submitted feedback to the connect site, and while acknowledged, it does not look promising.

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=317287

For the looks of this post, and others on the internet, I must be the only one that has deployed reporting services on an extranet site, and locked-down access by creating an application credential and building the relationship between these credentials and the reporting services browser access within the report portal interface as a way to create a secured anonymous access to individual reports while locking down access to browsing the folder hosting the individual reports, all without having to resort to custom authentication or forms authentication. This worked specially good when integrating reporting services with SharePoint.

I hope I am not alone and this is changed by RTM, or at least SP1 of SQL 2008

re: Everybody (Why Leave IIS?)

mosuni — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:48:32 GMT

You are not alone jcnovoa. I have the same issue/concern. Hopefully, IIS integration is made optional.