Report Management - Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services - page 403

Client Browser

Report Manager ASP.NET
Web Application

Reporting Services Web
Service API

Report Server
Database

Figure 10-1

Access to all reports and resources can be flexibly managed. For example, a user can be provided access
to reports that run on demand based on values supplied by that user, or they may be restricted to view-
ing static reports delivered by subscription. The task of managing content can also be broken up among
multiple roles, each responsible for managing the functions of different reports or other resources. Using
the Report Manager, you can perform create, read, update, and delete operations on the most frequently
accessed content in the Report Server database.

There's a link to the Report Manager on your Start Programs menu, or you can point your browser to

the Report Server URL. The default address for that is

➪

http:// <ServerName> /reports

Be sure to replace <ServerName> with the server hosting the Report Manager application. If that's your
local machine, then localhost works. In a production installation, the name of the virtual directory