Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step

Chapter 10. Managing Security

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Use item-level role assignments to secure items in groups or individually.

• Define administrative permissions with system-level role assignments.

• Combine roles with parameters to secure data in linked reports.

• Use a permissions table to restrict access to data in reports.

After publishing content on the Report Server, which you learned how to do in Chapter 9, "Managing Content," it’s important to implement security. At a minimum, you need to grant users access to the Report Server and its contents. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use role-based security to control not only what users can see on the Report Server, but also what they can do. You’ll also learn three ...