Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Security
Security is a very important part of an enterprise-level standard reporting
infrastructure. Reporting Services provides a variety of options and capabilities
for securing objects on the report server as well as the information displayed in
the reports.
This section discusses security at a high level. For a deeper understanding
and a complete list of differences between Reporting Services in the
Native and SharePoint Integrated modes from a security perspective,
please refer to the section on TechNet at
http://technet.
microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522824.aspx
.
Roles and permissions
Access to objects on a report server, such as reports, shared data sources, shared
datasets as well as features and functionality such as creating a subscription or a data
alert, is controlled through roles. Roles are predefined sets of permissions that can be
granted to users or user groups.
Reporting Services comes with a set of standard roles, each of which is defined to
target a specific type of user. For example, the
Browser
role is typically assigned to
any user who simply needs to be able to run reports, while the
Content Manager
role is reserved for power users or report administrators.
You can learn more about the default roles from the following TechNet articles:
• SharePoint Integrated Mode
(
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326284.aspx
)
• Native Mode
(
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157363.aspx
)
In SharePoint Integrated mode, roles are referred to as permission
levels, but conceptually they are the same. The following TechNet article
contains a comparison of the standard roles between the two different
installation modes:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/
library/bb283182.aspx
.
