The primary tool for administering and managing Reporting Services is Report Portal which is used for managing the published items. In addition to this, Reporting Services Configuration Manager and SQL Server Configuration Manager tools are given for handling various administrative tasks.
Before exploring functionalities and the way of managing the content, we need to understand the reasons for management.
Once a reporting solution is published to the Reporting Services, first thing we need to understand is how it works. In high level, when a request is made for a report by an end user, it reads the report definition, process it with data assigned and then finally it renders the report as per the format requested. It actually creates a standard output just after data and report processing called Intermediate Format used for rendering the final report to end user, caching and holding snapshots as well.
In most cases, since development environment is different with the production...