I had been asked a number of times what is the difference between Reporting Services, Report Builder, and ReportViewer Controls, so here’s a quick recap: Reporting Services: This is the server-based reporting platform as part of the Microsoft BI stack that allows you to create reporting solutions against multiple data sources. More information can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159106.aspx. As part of the Visual Studio 2008 Business Intelligence Development Studio, you can create your reports in a development shell which ultimately creates Repot Definition Language (RDL). Report Builder 2008: Report Builder is an Office-like tool that allows you to create reports with all…
Month: April 2009
Handling Cross-forest deployments
In many corporate or external-facing SharePoint deployments, it becomes necessary to develop multiple forests or domains to handle different users. A great explaination of this concept can be found in the SharePoint Team’s blog on Support for Cross-forest deployments. The basic idea here is that you have two domains, e.g. DomainA and DomainB. DomainA has your SharePoint servers and you want to be able to add users from DomainB to be allowed access to your site. An example would be to use the People-Picker on your SharePoint site and you want to add DomainBUser1. This can work if there…
Reporting Services, Report Builder, and ReportViewer Controls
I had been asked a number of times what is the difference between Reporting Services, Report Builder, and ReportViewer Controls, so here’s a quick recap: Reporting Services: This is the server-based reporting platform as part of the Microsoft BI stack that allows you to create reporting solutions against multiple data sources. More information can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159106.aspx. As part of the Visual Studio 2008 Business Intelligence Development Studio, you can create your reports in a development shell which ultimately creates Repot Definition Language (RDL). Report Builder 2008: Report Builder is an Office-like tool that allows you to create reports with all…
Handling Cross-forest deployments
In many corporate or external-facing SharePoint deployments, it becomes necessary to develop multiple forests or domains to handle different users. A great explaination of this concept can be found in the SharePoint Team’s blog on Support for Cross-forest deployments. The basic idea here is that you have two domains, e.g. DomainA and DomainB. DomainA has your SharePoint servers and you want to be able to add users from DomainB to be allowed access to your site. An example would be to use the People-Picker on your SharePoint site and you want to add DomainB\User1. This can work if there…
Denny Lee 