Comments on: Reporting Services 2008 Upgrade FAQs

By: Molson

Molson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:37:06 +0000

So the hotfix worked, everything is functioning correctly now.

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:14:52 +0000

Really? Very interesting!

By: Molson

Molson — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:26:36 +0000

Update: Tried this on another SSRS 2008 DEV server, Rendered correctly.

Looked at the SQL Server Versions:
Bad: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SP1) – 10.0.2531.0 (X64) Mar 29 2009 10:11:52 Copyright (c) 1988-2008 Microsoft Corporation Express Edition with Advanced Services (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 (Build 7600: ) (VM)

I will try Hotfix 2766 KB 979065.

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:23:59 +0000

As far as I know, we will always run in 2008 mode where we can in order to take advantage of the new / better rendering architecture. We only drop back to 2005 when 2008 won’t work.

Out of curiousity, what “thing” in 2008 mode are you trying to avoid?

By: Molson

Molson — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:25:12 +0000

Is there a way to force 2005 Backward-Compatibility Mode on SSRS 2008? I’ve been looking around the ‘net and can’t see any info on this.

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By: Russell

Russell — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:42:49 +0000

There is no way to manually upgrade at the server. It happens automatically, or you need to grab the RDL and open it in BIDS 2008.

By: Ravin

Ravin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:26:42 +0000

if the auto upgrade from 2005 report to 2008 report fails then can we do it manually again ?

Thanks