SQL SSRS 2012 - Excel OpenXML Export Performance

Hello,
Does anyone have details on what the Excel 2007 XML renderer is doing in Reporting Services and why it is taking 10 minutes to export and timing out as opposed to 30 seconds for CSV export or display in HTML? The database shows 25k for Data Retrieval,
25k for Processing, 60 for Rendering so it appears it is outside of these metrics.
The report contains 40 columns and 40,000 rows, with some textual data. The resulting XLSX is 10MB, or 100MB unzipped. There is no report or page header. The report contains a tablix with just details group, and some minor formatting. It
is inside a rectangle.
I would expect @ 2-3 minutes to export, though getting better performance than this would be nice.
Server is 11.0.3373.
Any suggestions or feedback on this issue and suggestions on presenting basically a formatted data dump in Excel to the customer would be helpful.
thanks,
Andrew
Andrew Sears, T4G Limited, http://www.performancepointing.com

Hello,
If I understand correctly, Excel render format is working fine when you export RDL file, but cannot work for RDLC file.
RDL files are created by the SQL Server 2012 version of Report Designer. RDLC files are created by the Visual Studio 2010 version of Report Designer. RSReportServer.config file is control RDL file rather than RDLC file. Based on my test, in Visual Studio
2010, when we export RDLC file, Excel render format is .xls. You can try to use Visual Studio 2012 to test, if it can export .xlsx file.
In order to solve the excel limitation issue, please refer to the document below:
http://msbitips.com/?p=624
Regards,
Alisa Tang
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SSRS 2012 excel export is still coming out as an xls not xlsx

Hello, All
I am pretty new to SSRS 2012 and trying to migrate existing SSRS 2005 reports to SSRS 2012 to resolve the limited record export function with classic excel format.
The server is using .Net Framework 2 application pool as below and it's not showing any page with .Net Framework 4.
I have migrated RDL files using SQL Data Tools and updated web.config and aspx pages too.
<system.web>
<httpHandlers>
<add path="Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd" verb="*" type="Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" validate="false"/>
<remove verb="*" path="*.asmx"/>
<add verb="*" path="*.asmx" validate="false" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
<add verb="*" path="*_AppService.axd" validate="false" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
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</httpHandlers>
<compilation debug="true" strict="false" explicit="true">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
<add assembly="Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
<add assembly="System.Configuration, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.Xml, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
<add assembly="System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
<add assembly="System.Web.Services, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.DirectoryServices, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.DirectoryServices.Protocols, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.EnterpriseServices, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.ServiceProcess, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="System.Web.RegularExpressions, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/>
<add assembly="Infragistics2.WebUI.Shared.v7.3, Version=7.3.20073.38, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7DD5C3163F2CD0CB"/>
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<add assembly="System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
<add assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
<add assembly="System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
<add assembly="System.Data.DataSetExtensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
</assemblies>
<buildProviders>
<add extension=".rdlc" type="Microsoft.Reporting.RdlBuildProvider, Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>
</buildProviders>
</compilation>
Also, Report Viewer 2012, 2010 and 2008 (all of them) were installed on the server.
I checked the RSReportServer.config file and it does have xlsx available and xls visible=false instead.
<Extension Name="EXCEL" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ExcelRenderer.ExcelRenderer,Microsoft.ReportingServices.ExcelRendering" Visible="false"/>
<Extension Name="EXCELOPENXML" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ExcelOpenXmlRenderer.ExcelOpenXmlRenderer,Microsoft.ReportingServices.ExcelRendering"/>
The target RDL file looks working fine with .xlsx file export in the SQL Data Tools(Report Designer) but it's not exporting xlsx file and trying to export classic xls and failed to generate more than 65536 records.
Can anyone help me with this issue?
Did I miss anything in the settings or something?
Your help would be much appreciated.

Hello,
If I understand correctly, Excel render format is working fine when you export RDL file, but cannot work for RDLC file.
RDL files are created by the SQL Server 2012 version of Report Designer. RDLC files are created by the Visual Studio 2010 version of Report Designer. RSReportServer.config file is control RDL file rather than RDLC file. Based on my test, in Visual Studio
2010, when we export RDLC file, Excel render format is .xls. You can try to use Visual Studio 2012 to test, if it can export .xlsx file.
In order to solve the excel limitation issue, please refer to the document below:
http://msbitips.com/?p=624
Regards,
Alisa Tang
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SSRS 2012 Excel Rendering Error

Hi
I need help
Platform
Sharepoint 2013
SSRS 2012 integrated in sharePoint 2013
I've no problem when I export my report (25000 records) to EXCELOPENXML format, but each time I try to export it with 140 000 records i've always the error described below , however I can export it to csv format
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ExcelRenderer.ExcelRenderer.Render(Report report, NameValueCollection reportServerParameters, NameValueCollection deviceInfo, NameValueCollection clientCapabilities, Hashtable& renderProperties, CreateAndRegisterStream
createAndRegisterStream)
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--- End of inner exception stack trace ---;
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at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ExcelRenderer.Layout.LayoutEngine.RenderNewItem(IRowItemStruct item, Int32 top, Int32 topRow, IExcelGenerator excel, String pageContentKey, Dictionary`2 sharedBorderCache, Dictionary`2 sharedImageCache,
Boolean& autosizableGrow, Boolean& autosizableShrink)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ExcelRenderer.Layout.LayoutEngine.RenderPageToExcel(IExcelGenerator excel, String key, Dictionary`2 sharedBorderCache, Dictionary`2 sharedImageCache)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ExcelRenderer.MainEngine.RenderRPLPage(RPLReport report, Boolean headerInBody, Boolean suppressOutlines)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ExcelRenderer.ExcelRenderer.Render(Report report, NameValueCollection reportServerParameters, NameValueCollection deviceInfo, NameValueCollection clientCapabilities, Hashtable& renderProperties, CreateAndRegisterStream
createAndRegisterStream)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.Execution.RenderReport.Execute(IRenderingExtension newRenderer)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.Execution.RenderReport.Execute(IRenderingExtension newRenderer)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.RenderFromSnapshot.CallProcessingAndRendering(ProcessingContext pc, RenderingContext rc, OnDemandProcessingResult& result)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.RenderStrategyBase.ExecuteStrategy(OnDemandProcessingResult& processingResult)
w3wp!wcfruntime!1b!02/25/2014-12:18:44:: e ERROR: Reporting Services fault exception System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[Microsoft.ReportingServices.ServiceContract.RsExceptionInfo]: An unexpected error occurred in Report Processing. ---> Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessingException:
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Any solutions

Hi Vichu,
According to your description, you encountered the timeout issue when rendering your report. Right?
In Reporting Services, sometimes this issue happens when rendering big report, and it exceed the default Query Timeout time. Generally, we increase the Query Timeout and Session Timeout so that it will have more time to retrieving data.
In this scenario, since you have done this adjustment and the issue still exists randomly. We suggest you optimize the performance of your report. Please refer to the articles below:
Processing large reports:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159638.aspx
Performance (Reporting Services):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522786.aspx
Improving report performance with caching:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155927.aspx
Report performance optimization tips:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertbruckner/archive/2009/01/08/report-performance-optimization-tips-subreports-drilldown.aspx
In addition, we recommend you install the Updates for SSRS 2012:
http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/
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SQL server 2012 Import and Export Wizard missing Flat File Options

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Stage that the Next button is optional, (usually greyed out)
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OK
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Excel rendering not correctly for SQL SERVER 2012 (and reporting server)

hi
I have a tablix that has a category, subcategory and total items column. The total items are grouped into subcategories which are in turn grouped into categories. When using the wizard we explicitly indicate that the subtotals and totals should NOT be displayed.
When displayed in SSRS on IE and we expand/collapse all the categories this works fine, however when we export these to an excel file using the export button we notice that the subcategories total is displayed with an empty cell when we toggle all the subcategories
under one category.
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Reference:
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/508823/reporting-services-2008-group-by-export-to-excel-duplicate-rows-csv-ok-pdf-ok
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SSRS 2012 - Groups in Report Manager aren't present when exported to Excel

Hi all, hope somebody can help with this issue, as I cant seem to find any other posts about it
I have a report in SSRS2012. It was copied from SSRS2005 quite recently, as we have upgraded. The SQL developer said that it didn't need any code changes, as he had some kind of tool to test code problems between the two versions.
The report has a table, with 5 row groups, and one detail row. The table is setup as follows:
Name                                         Sales
Costs       Profit
Group1
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      Group3
         Group4
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When I run this report using the Report Manager website from SSRS2005, and then export to Excel 2013, I get the 6 row groups in Excel, no problem whatsoever. I can drill into each group in Excel, using the group drilldown column on the left hand side. This
works the same as the Report Manager website.
If I run the exact same report from the Report Manager website in SSRS2012, the Report Manager result is the same as SSRS2005 - all the row groups are present, and the drilldown works fine. However, the export to Excel has issues with the groups. There are
only 3 row groups showing in Excel, along with a column group added for no apparent reason. Drilling into each group shows inconsistent details, and there is no apparent logic as to what is shown within each group.
Hopefully, someone has seen this issue before, and can help, because I have no idea what to do, having spent a couple of days trying to figure it out. I should also mention, that this issue with groups is seen on all my reports which have groups, not just
this report
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Hi Naz,
According to your description, the report works correctly in SSRS 2005 while the same report doesn’t work in SSRS 2012 when exporting to a Excel file.
In your scenario, please make sure you are migrating the report from SSRS 2005 to SSRS 2012 instead of copying the .rdl directly. Generally, we are using Reporting Services Migration Tool to migrate reports between report server. Please refer to this article:
SQL Server Reporting Services: Migrating SSRS reports, data sources and subscriptions from one server to another.
After migrating the report successfully, you should upgrade the report definition in SQL Server Data Tools to upgrade the .rdl file. Please refer to this article:
Upgrade Reports.
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If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
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SSRS 2012 problem with excel export

Hello
I updated SSRS 2005 up to SSRS 2012. When I exported report in excel (xlsx) I got following warning :
"We found a problem with some conent in 'filnename.xlsx'.Do you want to try to recover as much as we can? if you trust the source of this workbook,click yes"
After Pressing Yes Button
"REpaired Recors: Cell information from .xl.worksheets.sheet1.xml port"
15
0.00000000000000000000 this is in string format instead decimal
2
0.00000000000000000000
This heppens if i have decimal(38.20) variable in table and record value is 0.
To avoid this problem i must change report and use this expression
=IIF(Fields!SomeValue.Value = 0, 0, Fields! SomeValue.Value)
for value in report, but this is not sulution for me because we have more then hundred reports.
Is any other solution?

Hi LashaGurgenidze,
The issue seems to be related to the Excel 2010 or the Excel 2007-2010 rendering extension in SSRS 2012. If possible, I suggest that you keep the Office 2010 and the SQL Server 2012 up to date, and check the issue again.
In order to solve the issue, we can enable the Excel 2003 rendering extension in SSRS 2012, and use this render when exporting to Excel. We can modify the EXCEL render extension in the rsreportserver.config file as follows:
<Extension Name="EXCEL" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ExcelRenderer.ExcelRenderer,Microsoft.ReportingServices.ExcelRendering"/>
Then, the Excel 2003 render extension will be available in the Export drop-down list.
By default, the file is located in: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer. Before we modify it please backup the rsreportserver.config file.
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Alisa Tang
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SSRS 2012 export to Excel 2010 Via IE8 has many compatibility issues

Hi There,
We have many reports in SSRS 2012 which had originally developed in SSRS 2005. When ever we render these report into Excel we face two major issues;
First: After reports render in to Excel (xlsx) format, we have cell, column, row shifting problem and every element of the report is not in the same place as appose to 2005 render to xls format. Second.
for any drill through (link) report all the url will be blocked by Excel.
We use SSRS 2012, Office 2010 and IE 8. Also we don't want to add Export to Excel 2003 feature. In other word we want out put in xlsx.
Any solution, suggestion, hotfix is appreciated

Hi Mercede,
According to your description, after you updated SSRS 2005 reports to SSRS 2012, reports render appose to 2005 when export them to Excel, and drill through link is blocked.
Question1:
A report definition file includes a reference to the RDL namespace that specifies the version of the report definition schema that is used to validate the .rdl file. After a report is upgraded locally or on the report server, you might notice additional errors,
warnings, and messages. This is the result of changes to the internal report object model and processing components, which cause messages to appear when underlying problems in the report are detected.
When you open an .rdl file in Report Designer in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), if the report was created for a previous namespace, Report Designer automatically creates a backup file and upgrades the report to the current namespace. This is the only way
you can upgrade a report definition file.
In order to improve the efficiency of troubleshooting, I need to ask several questions:
“we have cell, column, row shifting problem and every element of the report is not in the same place as appose to 2005 render to xls format” Could you please provide detailed information about the problem? I would be appreciated it if you could provide
a screenshot.
Did you update the reports by opening the .rdl files in SSDT?
Could you export report to Excel 2003 to see if it displays correctly?
This may be a lot of information to ask for at one time. However, by collecting this information now, it will help us move more quickly toward a solution.
Question2:
I tested the issue in my local machine, when we add drillthrough action to the report, if we select Go to report or Go to URL, the link works fine after we export report to excel. It failed to work when we use javascript:void window.open to open a URL in new
windows, the “window.open” can’t work in Excel because of the JavaScript protocol can work only with an exact page.
For more information about Upgrade Reports, please refer to the following document:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143674(v=sql.110).aspx
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
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Hi Wendy,
Thank you much for your fast respond. And as for your questions:
1- Yes I did upgrade them by using SSDT tools in VS2012 and then deploy them again into our SSRS2012 report server.
2- For URLs and Hyperlinks, because the action is go to sub report, I used "Go To Report" and by look at content that been blocked by Excel, I have noticed that (Go To Report) action passes IP address of our SSRS Server . I don't know how can I change
it to use the actual path instead.
3- Shifting the Cells and Rows means when I export report (from SSRS 2005) to excel in xls format (Excel 2003 for example), has very same look as it shows in screen, but when I export it from ssrs 2012 to render it in to xlsx format (Excel 2010 in our case)
I face with merging cells and when I compare this xlsx out put with xls out put of very same report I have see the row that used to be on A23 for example now is in A20 or the column that used to be in A7 now is in B9 for example. And required a lot of manual
work on design to work with spaced between text boxes and location of each data region, and overlaps to get the same result. I want to know is there more efficient way to achieve the same out put as xls.
4- I can't export report to render in Excel 2003 (xls) format directly from SSRS server for we don't have that option in our export list, but I did "save it as" xls and faced the same Row, column, cell shifting as with xlsx.
Thank you so much
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SSRS 2012 Conditional Formatting Color Issues When Exporting to Excel

Hi all,
We recently upgraded to SQL 2012 from SQL2008 R2. I'm having a strange issue with SSRS2012.
One of the report has conditional formattings on cell background colors. Everything works fine when render the report in browser or preview mode. However, the conditional formatting stop working when export the report to Excel (no issues if
export to pdf). All cells are high-lightened with pre-defined color although it should only high-lighten those cells that fulfil the condition.
Has someone encountered this issue before ? Thanks for any help.

Hi ZZ02,
I have test the scenario in my testing environment, however, everything goes well when exporting to Excel format. The issue might be related to the expression for the conditional background color. To make further analysis, please post the expression as well
as the report design structure.
Additionally, in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services, the Excel rendering extension renders a report to the native format of Microsoft Excel 2007-2010, the format of which is ExcelOpenXML. By default, the previous version of the Excel rendering extension,
compatible with Microsoft Excel 2003, is disabled. At this time, I suggest that you enable the Excel 2003 rendering extension by modifying the RSReportServer.config file. After that, the Excel 2003 rendering format will be available on report manager (not
available in Report Designer). So, please export the report from report manager and check the result again.
For more information about enable the Excel 2003 rendering extension, please see:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlreportingservices/thread/0713de27-dcc0-4e51-81ac-5272647d171f
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SSRS 2012 background color format by expression issue when exporting to Excel.

We are using SSRS 2012. We have a report that conditionally formats a background color for some cells. The report renders properly in a browser and in Excel 2003 format. In Excel format all cells after the first one that meets the condition are highlighted,
even if only one cell should.
The sample expression that triggers this condition looks like this:
=IIF(Fields!VIOL_NOTE.Value="Internal","Green","No Color")
All cells after the first one that meets the condition Fields!VIOL_NOTE.Value="Internal" have a green background.
Excel 2003 (proper) results:
Excel (improper) results:
Zenon

Hi Zenon,
Based on your description, I try to reproduce the issue in my test environment, however it is work well. After export the report to Excel and Excel 2003, I can get exact same result when open the Excel file in Excel 2010.
Did you open the repot in Excel 2003 or Excel 2007-2010? Please post more deatils, so we can help to work out this issue.
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Ssrs 2012 export to comma delimited (csv) file problem

In an ssrs 2012 report, I want to be able to export all the data to a csv (comma delimited) file that only contains the detailed row information. I do not want to export any rows that contain header data information.
Right now the export contains header row information and detail row information. The header row information exists for the PDF exports.
To have the header row not exist on CSV exports, I have tried the following options on the tablix with the header row information with no success:
1. = iif(Mid(Globals!RenderFormat.Name,1,5)<>"EXCEL",false,true),
2. = iif(Mid(Globals!RenderFormat.Name,1,3)="PDF",false,true),
3. The textboxes that contain the column headers, the dataelelementoutput=auto and
   the text boxes that contain the actual data, I set the dataelelementoutput=output.
Basically I need the tablix that contains the header information not to appear when the export is for a csv file.
However when the export is for the detail lines for the csv export, I need that tablix to show up.
Thus can you tell me and/or show me code on how to solve this problem?

Hi wendy,
Based on my research, the expression posted by Ione used to hide items only work well when render format is RPL or MHTML. Because only the two render format’s RenderFormat.IsInteractive is true.
In your scenario, you want to hide tablix header only when export the report to csv format. While CSV file uses the textbox name in detail section as the column name, not the table header when you view the table. So if we want to hide the header row of the
tablix, please refer to the steps below to enable the “NoHeader” setting in the RSReportserver.config file:
Please navigate to RSReportserver.config file: <drive:>\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS1111.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer \RSReportserver.config.
Backup the RSReportserver.config file before we modify it, open the RSReportserver.config file with Notepad format.
In the <Render> section, add the new code for the CSV extension like this:
    < Extension Name="CSV"   Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.DataRenderer.CsvReport,Microsoft.ReportingServices.DataRendering">
        <Configuration>
            <DeviceInfo>
               <NoHeader>True</NoHeader>
            </DeviceInfo>
        </Configuration>
    < /Extension>
Save the RSReportserver.config file.
For more information about CSV Device Information Settings, please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155365(v=sql.110)
If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.
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