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Reporting Services and the MS09-062 GDR (GDI+)

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

Reporting Services: What’s my version?

I was working on a case where I needed to try something on different Cumulative Updates (CU) to see what the result was in each.  Let me outline the version numbers for the Service Pack 1 release we have to date. Release Version Number SQL 2008 RTM

Zero Byte Attachments in Email Subscriptions

I had an issue a while back with RS 2000 where we would get a Zero Byte attachment when hitting a Lotus Notes server.  This ended up being corrected in KB 872774 . So, when I was assigned a case with a similar description, but this time with RS 2005

Upgrading Windows with RS 2005

From an IIS perspective, there were changes between IIS 6 (Windows 2003) and IIS 7 (Windows 2008).  Reporting Services 2005 utilizes IIS for the Report Manager and Report Server Web Service.  If you had a Windows 2003 Server with Reporting Services

SocketException when creating a new Report Server Database

We had a customer call up that encountered a problem when trying to create a new database for their Report Server through the Reporting Services Configuration Manager.  This is what they saw: When we clicked on the Error link, we saw the following

Why aren't my subscriptions working?

I ran across an interesting issue the other day with subscriptions not firing.  I had never ran across this before, but once I was done it made sense.  It was also a good exercise of walking through how subscriptions work.  This may be

PRB: RML Utilities - Reporter errors during report rendering

Summary On a sporadic basis you may encounter any one of the following errors while rendering reports in Reporter: Index was outside the bounds of the array. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Fix The following Reporting Services hotfix

"Error: SharePoint is installed but not configured" when installing the RS Add-in on Windows 2008

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. 

Failure to load Report Manager due to truncated UserAgent string

We came across an issue when trying to load Report Manager.  We would get the following exception: System.ArgumentException: Version string portion was too short or too long. at System.Version..ctor(String version) at System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase.GetClrVersions()

RSWindowsNegotiate and 401.1 Error when using RS 2008

While I was setting up one of my demos for SQL PASS, I starting hitting 401.1 errors.  I was setting up a SharePoint Intergrated setup with Reporting Services. I knew I had a distributed environment, so I accounted for my Kerberos configuration. 

Reporting Services Windows Service will not start after applying MS08-052

We have been seeing a few cases where the Windows Service for Reporting Services will not start after applying the following fix: MS08-052: Description of the security update for GDI+ for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 GDR: September 9, 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954606/
 
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