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sql server reporting services : Setting admin rights to Report Manager, SQL Server Express 2005, V


Jenny
3/7/2007 2:36:05 AM
Hi all,

I'm a newbie to Reporting Services so please forgive my ignorance...

I've recently installed SQL Server Express 2005 with Reporting Services on
my Vista Business Notebook (with no network connections) and have installed
VS C# Express as well as the Business Intelligence Studio to create reports.

My C# application can connect to SQL Server fine, however, the reports I
created with Business Studio refuses to deploy to the server due to the
following reason:

"The permissions granted to user 'localhost\Jenny' are insufficient for
performing this operation".

I find this odd as I've been able to deploy reports on my other Windows XP
machine (with SQL Server Express) no probs at all. Additionally, I cannot
see the 'Site settings' link within Report Manager (Web) that I'd normally
get with an admin account (i.e. on my Win. XP machine). Various sources
indicate that my account has insufficient access rights to view this.

Having browsed through seemingly endless blogs and forums, I suspect that my
local account has not been configured to access the Report Manager web client
to publish, manage and administer the site.

I have tried the surface area tool for SQL Server, but I suspect that this
is relevant only to SQL Server DB access and management. Adding an
administrator here does nothing.

The question is, how can I grant access to myself (local account) to allow
me to publish reports via business studio, and at the same time - administer
Report Manager Site Settings - on my vista notebook??

I would be extremely grateful for any help on this matter - I've tried
ceaseless reinstallations, but to no avail!


Many thanks in advance,

Jenny
Christopher Robin
3/8/2007 12:01:33 PM
I, too, would like the answer to this question because it is exactly what I'm
seeing. I'm running SQL 2005 Developer Edtion on Vista. After installing
SQL 2005 SP 2, Reporting Services now functions, but by default my login does
not have any access to the Reporting Server. I can view the Report Manager
and Reports web sites, but I'm unable to do anything.

I'm still looking for a solution to this issue, and if I find something,
I'll post the results here.

Chris

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Christopher Robin
3/8/2007 3:01:28 PM
Well, I'm logged in as an Admin, and I'm a sysadmin on SQL, so I'm not sure,
how I could run IE at a higher security setting. The main issue for me is
simply that as a member of the built-in Administrator's group, I don't appear
to have any access to SSRS beyond viewing the folders. So, I can't add
logins to roles and I can't add or modify reports.

I've also added my IIS server to my trusted sites in IE.

Chris

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Bruce L-C [MVP]
3/8/2007 3:15:21 PM
I haven't done this but I was told the following: "only gotcha is that you
need to run IE as administrator else you don't see the SSRS toolbar"

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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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