You cannot deploy 2005 reports to RS 2000 server. However, you can deploy RS
2000 reports to a RS 2005 server. One caveat. When I did this I had a few
2005. But, you might want to try that out.
"jagb" <jagb@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> We are migrating to SQL Server 2005 (and also RS shipped with SQL 2005)
> but in the middle of the process we have still some servers still not
> upgraded (and running SQL Server 2000 and RS2000).
>
> Can we deploy reports to RS servers running SQL Server 2000 using Visual
> Studio 2005? It seems we cannot becasue we receive the following error
> message. Is any workaround to this or do we need to mantain a copy of both
> RS2000 and RS2005 rdl files and deploy each group of them using VS2003 and
> VS2005 respectively? This is somewhat repeat the same job twice, and might
> lead to mistakes and differences between the same file of each version.
>
> The error messages are in spanish but an approximated translation is
> provided (It probably does not match the real error message in native
> english).
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> ===================================
>
> No se pudo establecer una conexión al servidor de informes
>
https://www.mydomain.com/ReportServer. (Diseñador de informes de
> Microsoft)
> A connection to reports server at
https://www.mydomain.com/ReportServer > could not be stablished (Microsoft Form Designer)
>
> ===================================
>
> Error al intentar conectar con el servidor de informes. Compruebe la
> información de conexión y que la versión del servidor de informes sea
> compatible. (Microsoft.ReportingServices.Designer)
> An error occurred while trying to connect to reports server. Check the
> connection information and reports server version be compatable
> (Microsoft.ReportingServices.Designer)
>
> ------------------------------
> Ubicación del programa:
>
> en
> Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.RSConnection.MissingEndpointException.ThrowIfEndpointMissing(WebException
> e)
> en
> Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.RSConnection.GetItemType(String
> Item)
> en
> Microsoft.ReportDesigner.Project.ReportServiceClient.GetItemType(String
> item)
> en
> Microsoft.ReportDesigner.Project.ReportServiceClient.CheckAuthorized()
> en
> Microsoft.ReportDesigner.Project.ReportClientManager.GetCredentials(String
> url)
> en
> Microsoft.ReportDesigner.Project.ReportProjectDeployer.PrepareDeploy()
>
> ===================================
>
> Error de la solicitud con el código de estado HTTP 404: Not Found.
> (System.Web.Services)
>
> ------------------------------
> Ubicación del programa:
>
> en
> System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage
> message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
> en System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String
> methodName, Object[] parameters)
> en
> Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.ReportingService2005.GetItemType(String
> Item)
> en
> Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.RSConnection.GetItemType(String
> Item)
>
>