Jan 17, 2008 - I found a great new tool, although it exists since 2005, for scripting Reporting. Download it here: http://www.sqldbatips.com/showarticle.asp? Cloud Migration Tool Buyer’s Guide. Reporting Services Scripter comes in a download called RSScripter.zip. (RSScripter.exe and RSScripter.cfg in particular.
If you’re familiar with SSRS and development you are probably aware of the SSRS web services. The is a tool that comes with SSRS that allows for scripts to be executed against against the SSRS web service without needing to create an application to consume the service. One of the better benefits of using this format rather than writing an application is that the script can be modified by others who might be involved in the creation and addition of scripts or management of the SSRS environment. Reporting Services Scripter Jasper Smith from created to assist with the created of a batch process to deploy an entire SSRS environment. The helper scripts below were created through the modification of his generated scripts. Why not just use this tool?
You certainly can. For me, the volume of scripts generated seems less maintainable than just using some common methods extracted from these scripts and creating a deployment in a single script file. I would, however, recommend this as a product if you do not think that your environment will change drastically or if you do not need to deploy with a higher level of control over the deployment. If you just need to replicate, this tool works great.
Executing with RS.exe Executing a script against rs.exe is fairly simple. The Script Half the battle is having a starting point. For the scripting I needed to do the below is the starter script. A few notes:. This script assumes integrated security. This script assumes your reports have one data source each. Both of the above are just what made sense for my scenario and are definitely modifiable to accommodate your needs.
If you are unsure how to change the scripts to your needs, I recommend to help you understand how the differences. The script has three main methods: CreateFolder, CreateDataSource and CreateReport. Scripting the server deployment is just a process of recreating all of the elements that you need through calls to these methods. If there are additional elements that you need to deploy that aren’t covered by these methods, again I suggest using to get the code you would need, convert it to a repeatable method and add it to this script!
As part of our SQL Server infrastructure consolidation project, it was decided to consolidate multiple companies SQL Server 2005 / SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services instances to a new dedicated SQL Server 2012 Report Services instance. These existing SQL Server Reporitng Services instances hosts many business critical SSRS reports, data sources and subscriptions. In order to complete this task, I’ve to make sure that, all reports and other artifacts are migrated successfully from the existing SQL Server 2005/ SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services instances to the new SQL Server 2012 Report Services instance. Well, we all know that this is not a simple task that can be performed manually, because it involves, manually saving each report file locally on these Report servers manually, and then moving and uploading the report files into the new location of SQL Server 2012 Report Server? This also means that I have to again create data sources and subscriptions for these reports. Fortunately, after doing some research, I found two tools that can be used for this Reporting Services migration task.
The first tool is from Microsoft, that can be used for migrating reports and other artifacts from SQL Server 2008 R2 and later versions report servers to the new SQL Server 2012 Report Server. This tool uses PowerShell for migration scripts. Here is the link to l. For more information about how to use this tool, see.
Although, is a great tool for migrating SQL Server 2008 R2 or later releases Reporting Services instances. However, it is not a suitable for this consolidation situation because I also have few SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services instances. This is where this second tool that is a freeware tool called comes handy.
You can use this tool to migrate the reports, data sources and subscriptions from SQL Server 2005 or later releases Reporting Services instances to any SQL Server 2005 or later releases Reporting Services instance. The use of this tool is quite simple, as it only requires you to specify the ReportServer URL of your SSRS server, with the user credentials to log on to the server. The following is the snapshot of this tool: You can download tool from. Our problem here is the migration of the REPORTSERVER and REPORTSERVERTEMPDB on a soon to be defunct instance MS SQL 2005 to a newer MS SQL 2008 R2 instance where there already exists a REPORTSERVER and REPORTSEVERTEMPDB: We just want to migrate those older objects over to the newer instance with minimal disruptions. The existing editing of the reports to point to the NEW instance is a secondary daunting task.
Other than writing/finding scripts to do this, and then editing each report to point to the new connection instance DB, we are not sure what else to do: Are there any suggestions/tools in this arena? I want to migrate reports from SQL Server 2008R2 to SQL Server 2012 using ReportSync (I can’t use Migration Tool because both reporting servers run in native mode).
Migration fails because of the following error: Upload failed.System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The definition of this report is not valid or supported by this version of Reporting Services. The report definition may have been created with a late version of Reporting Services or contain content thet is not well-formed or not valid based on Reporting Services schemas.
Details: Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 1, position at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.reportingService2005Impl.CreateReport and so on. Did you meet similar problems? What can be the cause? There is no problem when I migrate reports manually.
Great article. Thanks for sharing migrating tools Basit. My company also has a need to switch from SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2012. Beside apps running on SQL servers, there are about 200 reports running on SQL server 2005. It’s really efficient when I can do the “migrating process” automatically that takes about 2-3 min instead of doing manually one-by-one report (download from SSRS 2005, then upload to SSRS 2012). The tool that I test is ReportSync that is very friendly than Migrating Tool from Microsoft. Again thanks so much for your article!
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