CHAPTER 10 MANAGING REPORTSCreating a Standard Subscription
The first step in manually creating a subscription is to run Report Manager and navigate to the report for
which you want to create the subscription. For the example, navigate to the Patient Certification Listing
report, which is in the Patient Documentation folder on the report server. Place your cursor over top of
the report until you see the down arrow and click it to view the options menu. From here you have the
option to select Subscribe or Manage and then navigating to the Subscriptions tab. However, this time
we are going to select Subscribe to create a new subscription for the report. If you have configured your
SMTP server correctly during installation, you will be given the choice to select E-mail as the delivery
option. If the E-mail option is not available, you can use the Reporting Services Configuration Manager
to set up e-mail, as shown in Figure 10-16. The Reporting Services Configuration Manager can set many
of the same properties that control the report server as the command-line tools. The Reporting Services
Configuration Manager is a good tool to use to set the properties of the report server that may need to be
configured post-installation, such as the report server virtual directory or the account used to execute
unattended reports. You’ll use the Reporting Services Configuration Manager again to join the instance
of SSRS to another report server, which creates a Web farm of report servers to gain performance. For
now, verify that the SMTP settings are correct.
Figure 10-16. Reporting Services Configuration Manager, e-mail settings