Overview of SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Architecture, Features, and Tools - Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 - page 165

Type Default

Data processing A default Report Server instance includes data processing

extensions for SQL Server, Analysis Services, Oracle, Hyperion
Essbase, SAPBW, OLE DB, Parallel Data Warehouse, and ODBC
data sources.

Rendering A default Report Server instance includes rendering extensions

for HTML, Excel, CSV, XML, Image, Word, SharePoint list, and
PDF.

Delivery A default Report Server instance includes an e-mail delivery

extension and a file share delivery extension. If the Report Server
is configured for SharePoint integration, you can use a delivery
extension that saves reports to a SharePoint library.

The available extensions that are configurable are shown in the rsreportserver.
config file. Please open the rsreportserver.config ile in Notepad with
administrator privileges (or Visual Studio) to review the extensions configured
in a default install.

Please review the <Extension/> section in
the configuration file.

For more detailed information, follow the link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/hh213576.aspx .

Reporting Services tools
There are a number of tools available in Reporting Services some of which have
already been described. Here we catalog the items under three categories. Chapter 8 ,
Reporting Services and Programming, describes URL Access, Rskeymgmt Utility,
Power Shell, and so on.

Tools for Report Server administration
The following are the tools used in administering a Report Server in Native mode
installed when SQL Server is installed with Reporting Services in Native mode. We
have seen some of them already and some we will review in the remaining chapters.
Here is the list of the tools:

• Reporting Services Configuration Manager
• SQL Server Management Studio