SQL 2012 Power View Reporting Services Addin

I have to say, I was pretty blown away by a recent demo of the new Power View product (codename: CRESCENT) released with SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services. The demo shows some really cool visualization features. Power View is only available on Enterprise or Business Intelligence versions of SQL Server 2012 and it is also only accessible through Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise Edition or through Excel 2013. It’s a reporting services add-in written in Silverlight. If you are eager you can download the Excel 2013 preview here. And here is the link for the SQL Server 2012 Eval. The demo seems to run off of a cube, however they do not specify. I’m not sure, but I assume you could also run this off of data source views exposed by reporting services however it probably would not have the cross-reference capability. Power View Youtube Demo. Here are some more interesting links: TechNet – Power View Overview Visualizing the Summer Games with Power View in Excel 2013! Deployment Checklist

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Reporting Services Scale-Out Setup with Kerberos Delegation

A common configuration for SQL Reporting Services is to use a scale-out setup. The reason for this is the performance of the rendering (or pagination) of the reports is relatively processor intensive (at the time of this article SQL Server 2005) Along with this setup comes an intrinsic problem. By default, SQL Reporting Services uses integrated authentication with impersonation. In other words, SQL Reporting services uses an authentication scheme that integrates with Active Directory in order to provide access and administrative priveliges. When Reporting Services is installed on the same machine as the database engine, this does not pose any issues. However with a scale-out setup, it does. This obstacle is known as the “double-hop” issue. Why? Because user credentials cannot be passed from one machine to another without a setting up Kerberos Delegation. In this article we will go over how to accomplish this setup and the typical obstacles you may need to overcome. There are a few prerequisites to setting up Kerberos delegation. All computers accessing the application must be in the same domain. The time of all computers must be synchronized using the time service. Kerberos ports must be open if going through a firewall. Client browsers must be setup to allow integrated authentication. Clients must be domain users. All clients must be running Windows 2000 or greater. All client’s browsers must be IE 5+ Functional level of the domain is set to Windows 2003 (highly preferable but not required) Physical Layout Depending on your infrastructure design, […]

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