SSRS Reporting Issue

Question

HI All,
        I had a custom requirement in SSRS which has three Roles in the Databases.
        Example 
        Roles :  Role1, Role2,Role3
        Folders : Folder1,Folder2,Folder3
        Role1 Should be able to see all the Folders Considering him as an highest privilaged user and Role2 Should be able to see folder 2 and Folder 3 and Role3 should be able to see only Folder3 in Report Manager.
        Issue here is i had more than 600 users who belongs to Role2 and 1000's of users for Role3 So it is difficult for me to give permissions by having AD Groups as users might get added day by day and
we end up having resource for monitoring newly added users and giving permission to them.
       Instead i am looking out to implement custom authorization, based on the Logged in user i can go back to database get the Roles associated with the user and Display the folders based on the Roles.
       is it possible to implement it using SSRS Custom Authorization, if so can some one please guide me further on how to implement it.
     Thanks In Advance.
Thanks,
Prasanth

Answer 1

Hi Prasanth,
Reporting Services can be extended to support Forms Authentication using the security extensibility interfaces available through the Reporting Services API. Forms Authentication requires that a person is present to enter credentials. For unattended applications
that communicate directly with the Reporting Services Web service, Forms Authentication must be combined with a custom authentication scheme. We can add Forms Authentication by deploying a custom security extension to the report server. For more information
and code samples about custom security extension, please refer to the following links:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/675943/SSRS-Forms-Authentication
http://msftrsprodsamples.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=SS2008R2%21Security%20Extension%20Sample
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
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