1.3. Report Serving Architecture
Once you finish building your report and have it looking exactly the way you want, it is time to share that report with others. This is the time when your report moves from safe, childhood life inside a report project to its adult life on a Report Server. This is known as deploying the report. Let me assure you, reports pass through deployment much easier than you and I passed through adolescence!
1.3.1. Report Server
The Report Server is the piece of the puzzle that makes Reporting Services the product it is. This is the software environment that enables you to share your report with the masses, at least those masses who have rights to your server. Figure 1-4 shows the basic structure of the Report Server. ...
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