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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

Handling security with SharePoint


Security with SharePoint can occur at multiple levels. There is controlling access to the entire site itself, to individual folders within the site, or to individual report items. At all three levels, security is performed similarly, you'll select the Share option, then indicate the Active Directory user or group to share with.

Most of the time, you'll be sharing with Active Directory groups, but for simplicity in this chapter's examples we'll use a user name. To keep things simple just remember when we say user in this section, we mean user or group. The technique is identical for both.

With security there are multiple actions to perform, such as adding, altering, and removing permissions for a user. Hence we've broken this up into mini-recipes for each action to make it easier to find what you need to do.

Getting ready

It is assumed you have administrative permissions on the SharePoint server, and are using Active Directory authentication for access to SharePoint...