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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Reporting

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Reporting

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Comparing the Dynamics GP Reporting Tools Against Different Reporting Challenges
Index

Configuring security for Reporting Services


Once we've installed the predefined reports metrics, we need to define which users will have access to these objects. Security for SSRS reports is two-fold: first, we must grant access to the actual reports in the Report Manager, and then, we must grant the database access to the report so that it can actually retrieve data from the database.

Note

Note that after the initial deployment, only users who are members of the web server's local administrator group and the database server's local administrator group will be able to view and generate reports from the Report Manager. All other users must wait for the security policy to be modified so that they can also view and generate data for the reports.

Assigning access to the Reporting Services website

The first step to setting up security for the predefined SSRS reports is to set security for the Reporting Services website. This is done by granting access to Windows Group or User to Role(s) that have...