Create DNS A Records

Create DNS A Records

1. Go to “Start” –> “All Programs” –> “Administrative Tools” –> “DNS” to launch the “DNS Manager”.
2. Go to “<Domain Controller>” –> “Forward Lookup Zones” –> “<Your Domain>”
3. Right click the targeted domain name and select “New Host (A or AAAA)…”

4. In the “Name” field enter in the name that will be used for the HNSC web application followed by the unique IP address. The name will be automatically appended to the domain name in the “Fully qualified domain name (FQDN):” field.
In this example its hnsc.2008r2.local and I’ll use 192.168.153.14 since it’s not in use.
5. Click “Add Host” to create the entry.

6. Repeat this step for each site collection that was defined in the SAN entry of the certificate created in the previous step.
7. Verify the DNS entries were added for the web application and each site collection defined in the SSL certificate.

Configuring Reporting Services 2008 R2 in SharePoint 2010 Integrated Mode – Part I

I found this article posted by Dinesh and it really helped me with SSRS.

Configuring Reporting Services 2008 R2 in SharePoint 2010 Integrated Mode – Part I

Once the server is ready with SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2, configuration can be started. If you have selected “Install, but do not configure the report server”, you need to configure Reporting Services in SharePoint 2010 mode. Here are steps for configuring it;

• Open Reporting Services Configuration Manager and connect with Reporting Services instance.
• Make sure that Report Service status is Started. Notice that Report Server Mode is Native.
• Open the “Report Service Database” section by clicking the Database navigational tab button. It shows the SQL Server Name, Database Name, and Mode if configured. Click on Change Database button to launch Report Server Database Configuration Wizard. Here is a screenshot of it; 
  
  
  
• Click Next and open the next window of the wizard. Configure the database server which will host the Reporting Services instance. Once authentication is set, click Test Connection and see whether connection can be established successfully. Click Next.
• Type the database name as ReportServer which is the default name. However you can give a names like ReportServerSharePointIntegrated too. Select the option Report Server Mode as SharePoint Integrated. Click Next to continue.
• Set credentials that will be used for connecting to the database. If everything is in one box, Service Credentials would be enough.
• When you click on Next, you will see the summary of what you have entered/selected. Continue with the wizard and complete it.
• If need to change the port of Web Service URL, go to Web Service URL section by clicking Web Service URL navigational tab button and set it. I have set the port as 20000 and my Web Service URL is http://DP03:20000/ReportServer. 
  
  

Next step is downloading Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint 2010. Here is the link for downloading it:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b3bebf9d-d86d-48cd-94e2-0639a846be80.

Once it is downloaded, start installing it. Starting screen would be this; 

Complete the installation. Now all required parts are ready. Next is configuring SharePoint for Reporting Services. Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and click on General Application Settings link. 

Once the General Application Settings is open, a section called Reporting Services can be seen which allows managing integrating settings. 

The link Reporting Services Integration opens the window where Report Server Web Service URL and Authentication Mode can be set. The Report Server Web Service URL should be the URL that has been configured with Web Service URL navigational tab of Reporting Services Configuration Manager. Authentication mode can be either Windows Authentication or Trusted Authentication. Since everything is in one box, Windows Authentication would be fine with this.

In order to user Trusted Authentication, a trusted account has to be predefined. When Trusted Authentication is used, Report Server has no knowledge on the user connected to the SharePoint. Trusted account impersonates connected SharePoint user and will be used for accessing the Report Server. Trusted Authentication is usually used with Form Authentication or windows authentication without AD or Kerberos. Here is my screen; 

 

Set Server Defaults under Reporting Services allows changing default server settings for Reporting Services. Some of this elements can be changed are; Number of Snapshots, Ad-Hoc Reporting and Client-Side Printing.

Now the integration is done. The SharePoint is fully integrated with Reporting Services. We need a hosting environment for Reporting Services. Since Reporting Services Add-In has added necessary content types for the Farm, reports can be added to any site. Or else, a new site can be created for hosting Reporting Services reports and connections. See Part II for creating a site, configuring libraries and content type, and publishing reports from BIDS.

Configuring Reporting Services 2008 R2 in SharePoint 2010 Integrated Mode – Part II

Configuring Reporting Services 2008 R2 in SharePoint 2010 Integrated Mode – Part II

If you need to create an extremely user-friendly environment for Reporting Services 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010 Integrated Mode is the best solution. Configuring Reporting Services 2008 R2 in SharePoint 2010 Integrated Mode – Part 1 explains the initial configuration up to SharePoint integration. This post discusses creating a web site for Reporting Services with relevant libraries and content types, finally publishing reporting from BIDS.

Let’s start creating a Web Application. Go to SharePoint Central Administration and click Manage Web Applications under Application Management. Once Application Management is open, click on New to create a new web application.

Some of the attributed in New Web Application Form as as follows;

• Authentication
  Select Classic Mode Authentication
• IIS Web Site settings
  Select Create a new IIS web site option. I have named it as Report Server – 10005 and set the port as 10005.
• Security Configuration
  Leave default values
• Public URL
  In my case, URL is http://DP03:10005
• Application Pool
  Make sure Create new application pool is selected. I have named it as ReportServer – 10005.
• Database Name and Authentication
  Set the SQL Server name for Database Server. I have named the database as WSS_Content_ReportServer_10005.

Click OK to save setting. Once the process is completed, Application Created windows is appeared. Click OK to continue. New web application will be listed in Web Application window.

 

Next step is creating a site collection. Go back to Central Administration and click create site collections under Application Management. This opens Create Site Collection window. Let’s ceate one;

• Make sure that correct web application is selected (In my case, it is http://DP03:10005/.
• Add Title as Report Server.
• Let’s use the root for the Web Site Address. Do not select sites from the drop-down. Leave it blank.
• Select the Template as Team Site.
• Set both Primary Site Collection Administrator and Secondary Site Collection Administrator. Since I have everything in one machine, I set both as DP03\Administrator;.
• Click OK to create the site.
  
  

Once done, a message will be appeared saying Top-Level Site Successfully Created. Click on the link to go the site (In my case, link is http://dp03:10005). This is what I see;

Site needs libraries for holding reports and connections. Let’s create two libraries for the site.

• Click on Libraries link in left pane. It lists all document libraries available.
• Click the button Create for creating a new library.
• Select Document Library and Set the name as Reports. 
  
  
   
• Click Create for creating the library. Once the library is open, click on Library Settings for adding content types.
  
   
• When Library Settings is open, library related things such as General Settings, Columns, and Views are shown. By default, it does not show Content Type. In order to enable content type, click Advanced Settings under General Settings. Once the window is open, select Yes for Allow management of content types.
  
• Click OK to save settings. Note that now the Content Type is shown under Library Settings. Click Add from existing site content types link under Content Type. This opens Add Content Types page.
• Select Report Server Content Type from Content Types From drop-down. Then move Report Builder Report from left listbox to right listbox.
  Note that if you are not seeing “Report Server Content Types”, that indicates that Add-In has not been properly installed”.
  
  

• Click OK to save settings. Report Builder Report content type is now appeared under Content Types of Reports library.
  
  
• We have to create another library for data connection. Follow same steps for creating the library. Name it as Data Connections. Then enable Allow management of content types as did for Reports library. Then add Report Data Source content type for it.
  
  

Now SharePoint 2010 is ready for holding reports from Reporting Services 2008 R2. Let’s try to publish some reports to this. Open Business Intelligence Management Studio and create a Reporting Services project. If you have AdventureWorks 2008 Sample Report Project, you can use it for testing. Once the project is open, get the properties of the project. Set following properties;

• TargetDataSourceFolder: http://dp03:10005/Data Connection
• TargetReportFolder: http://dp03:10005/Reports
• TargetServerURL: http://dp03:10005/

Now deploy reports and see. Reports will be published to SharePoint site we created. Once published, open the home page of the site (http://dp03:10005) and click on Reports link in left pane. It lists all the reports published.

Click one of reports and see whether it works fine. Here is the output of Company Sales 2008 report.

All done. Reporting Services 2008 R2 is integrated with SharePoint 2010. I will be exploring more on this, specially SharePoint related things. Once they are explored, I will publish them.

PowerPivot Thumbnail Rendering Error

Many customers have reported after uploading a workbook to the PowerPivot Gallery, the thumbnails are not rendering:

Snapshots will not work if you have chosen to open the workbooks in the Client application. To remedy this, follow the below instructions:
To set the default open behavior for site collections

1. In the SharePoint site collection, click Site Actions, and then click Site Settings.
2. On the Site Settings page, under Site Collection Administration, click Site Collection Features.
3. On the Features page, for the Open Documents in Client Applications by Default feature, click Activate (OpenInClient Feature is enabled) to open documents in the client application. Click Deactivate (OpenInClient Feature is disabled) to open documents in the browser.

To set the default open behavior for a document library by using the document library settings page

1. On the <document library>: All Documents page, under Library Tools, click Library.
2. In the library toolbar, click Library Settings.
3. On the Document Library Settings page, click Advanced Settings.
4. On the Advanced Settings page, in Opening Document in the Browser, select one of the following options:
   Open in the client application When a user clicks on a document in this library, the document will open in the corresponding client application (if available).
5. Open in the browser When a user clicks on a document in this library, the document will open in the Web browser Web app for that document type. When the document is opened in the Web app, the user can then decide to open the document in the client application
6. Use the server default When a user clicks on a document in this library, the document will open by using the default open behavior specified for the server on which SharePoint 2010 Products is installed.

If the above do not work:
You need to invoke the Getshapshot.exe (which is located here: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80\bin>GetSnapshot.exe)

        *Note: Browse to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80\bin>GetSnapshot.exe and make sure it is 50/56kb.  I have seen instances where is is corrupt 0kb and it needs to be replaced.

To invoke the Getsnapshot.exe (re-title a workbook) via:
PowerPivot Gallery > Select a Report > Documents > Edit Properties > Title (give the workbook a title):    

                                           


If None of the above solve your problem, Please try this also it solved my issue.

Under browser on the server uncheck "Check for server certificate revocation"