Configuring SQL Reporting Services

If you've been working through the steps in this book, then you should have the Reporting Server role already deployed – this topic was covered in Chapter 2, Installing System Center Operations Manager. What we didn't dive into in that chapter however, was how to best configure the back-end SQL Server Reporting Services instance. Without an understanding of this, you won't be able to schedule OpsMgr reports by e-mail and you will also encounter problems when trying to restore or move the Reporting role to another server.

Here's a step-by-step walkthrough of what you need to configure:

  1. Log on to the server that you're running the OpsMgr SSRS instance from, open SQL Server Reporting Services Configuration Manager ...

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