Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Reporting Services Step by Step

Configuring the Report Server

As you learned in Chapter 2, you use the Reporting Services Configuration Manager to set the values required to run the report server. In that chapter, you configured the service account, the virtual directories and URLs for the Web service and Report Manager (if you’re running Reporting Services in native mode), database connection information, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server information, and execution account. The settings you specify by using the Configuration Manager are stored in the Rsreportserver.config file, which you can find in the Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10.<Instance>\Reporting Services\ReportServer folder, where <Instance> is the instance identifier for your report server. (If ...