One of our favorite tasks when it comes to ConfigMgr management is SCCM Report Creation. Not only it bring value to an SCCM installation, but it also brings visibility to your hard work toward your management. Without SCCM reports, this huge management tool is running silently on all your devices but you’re not benefiting from all the advantages. It’s like having a sports car and discovering the Autobahn … ok maybe not. But what makes a good SCCM report? Data, data, data This is the more important part of your reports. You need to query the right SQL views in the SCCM database. If you’re showing incorrect information, your report will be useless Building an efficient SQL query is the hard part of report creation. Without any SQL skills, it will be hard to achieve what you want… but, everything can be learned. Two years ago I’ve never done an … Read More
SCCM Upload RDL File to Report Server
SCCM Reporting is a great way to see insight of your inventory and data. There’s many custom reports out there on the internet. If you download a custom report, you’ll have a RDL file. This RDL then need to be uploaded on your report server. You can do it manually using the web portal or use a script. This post will show all the ways you can upload an RDL file on an SCCM Reporting Point. An RDL file is simply an XML application and a standard proposed by Microsoft for defining reports. SCCM Upload RDL file Requirements SSRS installed and all running components. If you don’t have a reporting server, you can refer to our post on how to install SCCM 2012 Reporting Services Point. A healthy RDL file. A user account with enough access to upload a report. Please read predefined roles on MSDN for more detailed information. Upload the RDL … Read More
SCCM report subscription ssrs does not list Email in Drop Down Menu
When configuring your Reporting Service on an SCCM server, one of the popular options is to configure reports to be delivered as an automatic email to recipients in your organization. Unfortunately, this option is not always available in the report Subscription wizard. What can you do when your SCCM report subscription SSRS does not list email in the drop-down menu? But first, let’s define what is exactly a Reporting Services subscription : Microsoft definition : A Reporting Services subscription is a configuration that delivers a report at a specific time or in response to an event, and in a file format that you specify. For example, every Wednesday, save the MonthlySales.rdl report as a Microsoft Word document to a file share. Subscriptions can be used to schedule and automate the delivery of a report with a specific set of report parameter values. You can create multiple subscriptions for a single … Read More
Install SCCM 2012 Reporting Services Point
In this part of SCCM 2012 and SCCM 1511 blog series, we will describe how to install a SCCM 2012 or SCCM 1511 reporting services point. This role can be installed on a remote machine, the process is the same but the logs location is different. Requirements Before you can install the reporting services point role you must configure SQL correctly. We’ll be using SQL 2012 on this post. We are assuming that SQL is already installed and that your SCCM site is up and healthy. During the initial SQL installation, you must select Reporting Services. If you have installed SQL Server, but have not installed Reporting Services follow the following steps. If Reporting Services is already installed, skip to the “Configure Reporting Services” section. Launch the SQL Server 2012 installation from the media. Click the Installation link on the left to view the Installation options. Click the top link, New SQL Server stand-alone … Read More
SCCM Reporting Point Error after R2 Upgrade
This post explains how to fix SCCM Reporting Point Error after R2 Upgrade. SCCM Reporting Point Error after R2 Upgrade Problem : After upgrading from SCCM 2012 SP1 CU2 to SCCM 2012 R2. You get the following error when running reports : An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot read the next data row for the dataset DataSet1. (rsErrorReadingNextDataRow) Conversion failed when converting the nvarchar value ‘S-1-5-21-1010946700-728571707-39459515-134623’ to data type int. Removing and adding the “Reporting Service Role” did not fix the issue. SRSRP.log has Invalid Class errors : Invalid class SMS_SRS_REPORTING_POINT 07/7/2014 1:52:12 PM 6096 (0x17D0)Could not retrieve the reporting service name for instance ‘RPSERVER’ SMS_SRS_REPORTING_POINT 07/7/2014 1:52:12 PM 6096 (0x17D0)Invalid class SMS_SRS_REPORTING_POINT 07/7/2014 1:52:12 PM 6096 (0x17D0)Could not stop the reporting service ” SMS_SRS_REPORTING_POINT 07/7/2014 1:52:12 PM 6096 (0x17D0)Next security configuration at [07/7/2014 1:52:12 PM] SMS_SRS_REPORTING_POINT 07/7/2014 1:52:12 PM 6096 (0x17D0) Resolution:The problem is due to the … Read More