Installing Reporting Services On Vista X64 (with IIS 7.0)

After wrestling my fair share on the Reporting services installation on Vista x64 with IIS 7.0 I figured to write out the details where the bells and whistles are found.

1. First Sergio Tarillo has written good guide for IIS 7.0 configuration so that Reporting Services accepts it. The guide is non-english, but the screenshots are self-explanatory:

http://geeks.ms/blogs/sergiotarrillo/archive/2006/10/16/4703.aspx

2. After that the resulting error is complainment about ASP.NET being 32-bit and not 64-bit registered. This actually means, that the application pool is opted to run 32-bit code. The real toggle is located under IIS management Application Pools ==> Set Application Pool Defaults... (top-right on the screen).

Under there set Enable 32-bit Applications to False.

3. You will need to install SQL Server 2005 SP2 CTP.

Note: The files seem to be named according to the KB article; however the filename does not show how old/new edition the SP2 CTP actually is (or at least I happened to have some from end of the November, when the current one as of now is December CTP - with different file size).

You can catch the December CTP here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d2da6579-d49c-4b25-8f8a-79d14145500d&DisplayLang=en

Or choose the "safer" route and use the "Where to find the latest SPs page":

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913089



After the SP installation I got the Reporting Server Configuration Manager to work without errors. However I ran out of time to work around the other errors configuration permission issues still.

I'll post follow ups as the thing progresses.

Kalle