
Deploying and Using Reporting
Services in SharePoint 2010
Reporting Services integration with SharePoint is something that has been around for several
versions of the tool at this point. The process of configuring the integration has become less
and less problematic with each version. There has been a major effort to simplify the integra-
tion of tools with SharePoint in the 2010 release of the product. In this lesson you will walk
through the configuration and deployment steps needed to integrate Reporting Services with
SharePoint 2010.
You may have noticed while stepping through the SQL Server installer that, if you included
Reporting Services as part of the installation, the installer asked whether you would like
to install in SharePoint-integrated mode. Selecting “Install the SharePoint integrated mode
default configuration,” seen in Figure 36-1, will save you the trouble of manually converting
the report server databases, which are created with every installation of Reporting Services, to
be in SharePoint-integrated mode.
If you have previously installed Reporting Services in native mode, without SharePoint inte-
gration, then you must manually make the switch to integrate the two products. To start the
process of manually converting from native mode to integrated mode, open the Reporting
Services Configuration Manager and connect to the instance of Reporting Services you
wish to ...