In setting up a local copy of SSRS 2008 on Windows 7 for an upcoming demo, discovered that the local security has been changed from prior versions. Figured I’d take a minute and document this…
I know that SSRS was configured properly having double checked the Reporting Services Configuration Manager:
However, when I browsed out the the web server web service url listed above, I received the following error. Figured that is a little strange, as I was able to publish a sample report project…
Did some checking… by default, the SSRS reporting server only allows the local Administrator to have permissions. Launch IE as ‘Run As Administrator’ navigate to http://localhost/reports
Now, you can add a New Role Assignment, in my case I added my local user account, gave it the appropriate roles:
Opened the Reports home page <http://localhost/reports> once again using my standard account, all is well.
Happy reporting!