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SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

By : Dinesh Priyankara, Robert Cain
Book Image

SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

By: Dinesh Priyankara, Robert Cain

Overview of this book

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services comes with many new features. It offers different types of reporting such as Production, Ad-hoc, Dashboard, Mash-up, and Analytical. SQL Server 2016 also has a surfeit of new features including Mobile Reporting, and Power BI integration. This book contains recipes that explore the new and advanced features added to SQL Server 2016. The first few chapters cover recipes on configuring components and how to explore these new features. You’ll learn to build your own reporting solution with data tools and report builder, along with learning techniques to create visually appealing reports. This book also has recipes for enhanced mobile reporting solutions, accessing these solutions effectively, and delivering interactive business intelligence solutions. Towards the end of the book, you’ll get to grips with running reporting services in SharePoint integrated mode and be able to administer, monitor, and secure your reporting solution. This book covers about the new offerings of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services in comprehensive detail and uses examples of real-world problem-solving business scenarios.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.Packtpub.com
Preface

Configuring e-mail with SharePoint


Reporting Services allows users to subscribe to reports, and have those reports e-mailed on a schedule. With SharePoint you can also create subscription based reports and have those e-mailed out. It does take a bit of set up however.

First, we'll need to configure the e-mail account for the Reporting Services application within SharePoint. Next, we'll have to provision SQL Server to allow SharePoint to manage these e-mail requests. This will put us in good stead for the next recipe, in which we will use this email address to manage subscriptions.

Getting ready

I'm sure it come as no surprise that you will need to have administrative rights to both the SharePoint and SQL Servers you are using. In addition, SQL Agent must be running on the SQL Server that is hosting Reporting Services.

How to do it...

  1. In the SharePoint Central Administration page, click on Application Management.

  2. Under the Service Applications section, click Manage service applications.

  3. Scroll down...