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Service Pack 2 Experience? Brian Welcker
4/23/2005 8:48:24 AM
sql server reporting services:
For those of you who have downloaded SP2, how is it going? Is print working
OK? Have you gotten the web parts working? Seen any *shudder* regressions in
functionality?

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Group Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? GeoSynch
4/24/2005 3:34:04 PM
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Hi Brian,

1. Is it a straightforward upgrade applying the patch without having to worry
about
key management and backing up this or backing up that?

2. Have you been in touch with Microsoft to see about whatever fix is necessary
that fixes Win2003 SP1 that broke Reporting Services?


Thanks,

GeoSynch

Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? Brian Welcker [MSFT]
4/24/2005 7:22:17 PM
For any patch, I would recommend backing up your database and encryption
key, not matter how straightforward it is.

What is the specific error you are getting on Win2K3 SP1? We have not gotten
a consistent repro in-house. And what is the identity of the AppPool used
for RS? Anything else unique about the box?

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Group Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? alpayutku NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com
4/24/2005 11:27:33 PM
Brian hi,
I was waiting for the SP2 because of a web archive subscription
e-mailing problem(because of the error data line too long for the
e-mail server?),and now it seems that the problem is solved.

We had a Windows 2003 SP1 authentication problem and this is overcome
with basic authentication-normally windows authentication fails
because of
the use of proxy server to access the internet.
I think the Windows 2003 authentication
problem("The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized") must
be
resolved in some way.

Reporting Services was good when it was first published and now it
is becoming better everyday.

Best regards,

Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? Brian Welcker [MS]
4/25/2005 1:24:54 AM
Thanks for the feedback. Good to know that it has resolved some issues for
you.

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Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server

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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? David Siebert
4/25/2005 7:44:10 AM
We had no problems installing the service pack, but our reports did not print
as they had in PDF Format. Each page was slightly wider than intended (a
page 8.5 x 11 portrait with .5 inch margins and a 7.5 in wide body did not
print on one page). When we reduced the margins, it printed correctly. Am I
doing something wrong with the page setup?

David

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RE: Service Pack 2 Experience? Alex Korygin
4/25/2005 8:22:24 AM
Brian,

we did not encounter any problems during the SP2 install on our Win 2003
Server. I was waiting for this service pack because I needed a fix for the KB
875518 - Width of a list that contains an embedded matrix grows
unexpectedly...
The service pack seems to solve the problem but only if there is a single
matrix embedded in the list. However, I have also a subreport embedded in the
same list that shows the matrix totals; this subreport is nothing but another
matrix. In this case the list still grows unexpectedly, producing one extra
blank page for each report page. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Alex Korygin.



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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? Brian Welcker [MSFT]
4/25/2005 10:01:30 AM
There may be slight differences between print (which is GDI based) and PDF.
One of the things is that printers have 'unprintable areas' that might cause
some issues. Are you sure you don't have anything that grows horizontally?
If you can repro it with a small sample, we can take a look.

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Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

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RE: Service Pack 2 Experience? Kevin Weir
4/25/2005 10:34:03 AM
Brian we are having a problem with client side printing feature printing
blank page at end of all reports. I'm not the only one as I noticed someone
else had already posted regarding this issue.


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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? David Siebert
4/25/2005 10:41:04 AM
Okay, here's the simplest example I can come up with:

I create a new document, set the body to be 6.5in wide by 2in tall. The
page size is 8.5in wide by 11in tall. I set all margins (top, bottom, left,
right) to 1in. So, we now have a blank page. The print preview in VS
displays the report as 1 blank page. When deployed and exported to PDF, it
is one blank page. However, when you click the print button and preview or
print the document using the sp2 client-side printing tool, it
displays/prints 2 blank pages.

Thanks for looking into this, and hopefully I'm just missing something
basic. Please let me know if you find anything

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RE: Service Pack 2 Experience? Alex Korygin
4/25/2005 5:42:59 PM
Brian,

here is another problem with SP2. We have a report that contains two
matrixes: one after another. These two must really look like a single table,
so we set the height of header rows to "0in" manually in rdl file for the
second matrix. It used to work with SP1, but now if I render report as HTML
using URL access I can see these hidden rows (note that GDI+ and PDF
rendering look fine). Another odd behavior is that the second matrix gets
suppressed (that is, I can only see 3 columns out of 7) the first time I
render the report, but after I click Refresh button on the viewer's toolbar
it renders all the columns. :(

Is there any way to hide the matrix headers now?


Regards,

Alex Korygin.





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RE: Service Pack 2 Experience? Alex Korygin
4/25/2005 6:13:07 PM
Brian,

we used to hide matrix headers by setting the row hight to '0in' manually in
rdl files. It worked pretty well until SP2 installation and now it is broken.
If I render report as HTML via URL access I can see all hidden rows (note
that GDI+ and PDF renderings still work fine). So, how do we hide the matrix
rows now?

Thanks,

Alex Korygin.

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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? Brian Welcker [MS]
4/26/2005 6:12:36 AM
I'm logged on from home so I don't have a server handy. I wonder if it is a
rounding error. Can you set your margins to be 1.9" wide and see if you see
this? And can you try exporting to TIFF and see if it repros? Finally, maybe
try another printer and see if it repros.

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Group Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server

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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? Brian Welcker [MS]
4/26/2005 6:14:33 AM
I'll see if we can repro this here.

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Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server

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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? David Siebert
4/26/2005 6:37:01 AM
Brian,

I tried printing my previous example on another printer, and obtained the
same results (2 blank pages printed). I also exported it to TIFF and it
displayed as 1 page (just like PDF and VS print preview).

Changing the margins to 1.9in wide made all formats show 2 pages as it was
an increase to the margins. If I change them to .9in, all formats (including
client-side printing) show 1 page. This has been my solution to work around
the problem for the time being.

I am running RS sp2 (developer) on XP Pro sp1 with SQL 2003 sp3 (developer)
all on the same machine. We've reproduced the same problem on another
desktop running the same software configuration.

People in this thread
(http://www.microsoft.com/sql/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs&mid=6cf61737-73a7-42ca-8b49-b2a488ed80ed)
seem to be having similar problems. One person had all margins set to 0in
but had the body set to the exact width of the page. This printed an extra
page but was resolved by decreasing the width of the body to something less
than the width of the printed page.

Thanks so much for your help and concern.

David Siebert

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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? Luke
4/26/2005 7:03:30 AM
Should we anticipate any emergency releases to the service pack?
RE: Service Pack 2 Experience? chanley54
4/26/2005 7:09:02 AM
Has anyone run across the "Excel Missing Rows" issue?

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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? Alex Korygin
4/26/2005 8:17:11 AM
Brian,

Thank you for looking into this. After playing for sometime this morning I
have been able to fix the problem. This behavior seems to occur if the matrix
width exceeds the width of the report. In this case the matrix looks
suppressed on the right side, but only the first time report is rendered. If
I zoom in and out, or expand / collapse a report section, or go to a next
page of the report – it renders correctly. So, I was able to fix my problem
by reducing the matrix width. Nevertheless, I am still not able to hide the
header rows.

Thanks,

Alex korygin.


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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? Brian Welcker
4/27/2005 9:12:07 PM
No, we have not found anything yet that would warrant this. Most of the
printing issues seem to be related to report settings or printer settings. I
have not seen a specific case that I have been able to repro here. If
someone has a simple repro that they think results in an error, we can give
it a try.

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Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? TobyRiley
5/6/2005 4:50:04 AM
I have the Windows 2003 authentication
problem("The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized") when
calling a webservice from an asp.net application.

Is there a resolution to this.

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Regards

Toby Riley


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Re: Service Pack 2 Experience? Brian Welcker [MSFT]
5/7/2005 8:27:46 PM
If the Report Server is on a different server than your ASO.NEt application,
you are probably running into "double hop" issues. You can't marshal
credentials from one server to another in Windows security without Kerberos
delegation.

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Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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RE: Service Pack 2 Experience? Ron
5/18/2005 9:28:13 AM
Our SRS blew up on SP2. After installing, we started getting this:

"The version of the report server database is either in a format that is not
valid, or it cannot be read. The found version is 'C.0.6.54'. The expected
version is 'C.0.6.51'. To continue, update the version of the report server
database and verify access rights. (rsInvalidReportServerDatabase)"

We found information at this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/RSerrors/htm/Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.ErrorStrings.resources.Strings_rsInvalidReportServerDatabase.asp

But couldn't figure out how to use rs.exe to upgrade the database.

We've tried uninstalling SRS and dropping the databases and going back to a
standard, non-SP2 install and are still getting errors - but with different
version numbers this time.

Any ideas?

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RE: Service Pack 2 Experience? Aaron DeGroff
6/3/2005 5:55:16 AM
We recently installed SP2 in order to resolve some of the issues with
matrices and Excel exporting. Although some of the issues were addressed, it
looks like it wasn't fully resolved:

For instance:

I have a report that has a header table with two matrices (one placed on top
of the other) that check a parameter passed in from the stored proc to
determine which matrix to show/hide.
Ex: (in matrix properties) Visibility.Hidden =
First(Fields!ShowMatrix1.Value, "MyDataSet")

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In Service Pack 1, the web screen looks correct (showing the correct matrix
and hiding the other), however when I choose to export to Excel, Reporting
Services displayed both matrices.

In Service Pack 2, when I export to Excel, and the first matrix is
displayed, everything's great (the first shows and the second is hidden).
Unfortunately, when the second matrix is displayed (second meaning the matrix
that lies on top of the first in the design view), there is this huge blank
row between the header and values.


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