CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING THE REPORTING SERVICES ARCHITECTUREtechnologies from within the browser or as a thick client application to make it available under the
Windows Start menu. Figure 1-4 shows an example of a report from Chapter 6, loaded in the Report
Builder.
Figure 1-4. Report Builder 3.0
Custom Clients
The final types of clients are those custom designed to access the SSRS Web services. Between all of the
authors of this book, we have built several such applications for many organizations, which use both the
report viewer and the report publisher. Third-party commercial applications provide extended
functionality, for instance RS Scripter, which assists in scripting and managing various report server
catalog items; it can extract RDLs from a server, and manage subscriptions, roles, and even migration
from one server to another.
Installing and Configuring
You can install Reporting Services—like Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Notification
Services—as part of the main SQL Server installation. Before you install Reporting Services 2012, you
must know whether you are going to run in native or SharePoint integrated mode. With earlier releases
of Reporting Services, you could change mode after installation by using the Reporting Services