In this recipe, we will provide a brief overview of how to publish reports to the new SSRS 2016 Report Portal. Formerly called Report Manager in previous versions of SQL Server, the Report Portal has been completely redesigned.
For this recipe, we won't be creating new reports; instead we will be using the reports we've created in this chapter.
You will need to know the two URLs for your report portal. Yes, two. One is the user interface with which users can browse your reports. The other is the backend you will send the reports to when you publish them. The tool to find both of these is the Reporting Services Configuration Manager.
Go to the Start menu, locate Microsoft SQL Server 2016, and open the Reporting Services Configuration Manager. On versions of Windows without a desktop start menu, such as Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 R2, you can use the search option.
When it opens, you'll need to connect to your server. For SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition...