Overview of SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Architecture, Features, and Tools - Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 - page 131

Reporting Services configuration
For both modes of installation, information for Reporting Services components is
stored in configuration files and the registry. During setup the configuration files
are copied to the following locations:

• Native mode

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.MSSQLSERVER

• SharePoint Integrated mode
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server
Extensions\15\WebServices\Reporting
Follow the link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155866.
aspx for details.

Native mode
The Report Server Windows Service is an orchestrated set of applications that run in
a single process using a single account with access to a single Report Server database
with a set of configuration files listed here:

Stored in Description Location

RSReportServer.config Stores configuration

settings for feature
areas of the Report
Server Service: Report
Manager, the Report
Server Web Service,
and background
processing.

<Installation
directory> \
Reporting Services
\ReportServer

RSSrvPolicy.config Stores the code access

security policies for the
server extensions.

<Installation
directory> \
Reporting Services
\ReportServer

RSMgrPolicy.config Stores the code access

security policies for
Report Manager.

<Installation
directory> \
Reporting Services
\ReportManager

Web.config for the Report Server
Web Service

Includes only those
settings that are
required for ASP.NET.

<Installation
directory> \
Reporting Services
\ReportServer