SSRS Subscription migration

Good day all,
I have been working in an SQL 200R2 environment, and recently moved to an SQL 2014 environment. I have well over 1000 subscriptions (both email and DDS) in my previous environment. I would like
to migrate these subscriptions to my new 2014 environment.
Is this possible, and is there a quick way around this?
Your help will be much appreciated, as it would be next to impossible to manually recreate all these in the new environment.
Many thanks
Regards
Zimiso

Hi Zimiso,
As
Lucas have provide some details information about how to do the migration from one server to another.
For the migration of subscription, we can use rs.exe which support for the SSRS 2008 r2 and later version to do migration by executing script. Here is a sample script for migration. You can download from:
https://azuresql.codeplex.com/releases/view/115207
This script will migrate the subscription to the new report server as well. For detail information and steps, please refer to the link below:
Sample Reporting Services rs.exe Script to Migrate Content between Report Servers
If you still have any problem, please feel free to ask.
Regards,
Vicky Liu
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SSRS Subscriptions Issue

Hello All,
After the server migration (old-new are identical servers in all aspects including HardWare) the SSRS subscriptions are having issues.
1. They will run as scheduled but mails are delivered late.
2. They ran on weekends even though it was not scheduled and not triggered from team.
3. Job history is not getting updated when subscription run on weekend.
Workarounds We Did but not solved:
1. SQL Services restarted.
2. SSRS restarted.
3. Manually tested the Subscriptions.
Please advise.
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Hi Pradyothana,
According to your description, the subscription doesn’t work fine when you migrate it from old server to a new server.
In your scenario, please use code below to find the corresponding job of the subscription, then check if the schedule both in the subscription and the job is the same.
use ReportServer;
Go
SELECT
c.Name AS ReportName
, rs.ScheduleID AS JOB_NAME
, s.[Description]
, s.LastStatus
, s.LastRunTime
FROM
ReportServer..[Catalog] c
JOIN ReportServer..Subscriptions s ON c.ItemID = s.Report_OID
JOIN ReportServer..ReportSchedule rs ON c.ItemID = rs.ReportID
AND rs.SubscriptionID = s.SubscriptionID
Besides, since you mentioned the email will be delivered on weekends though it hasn’t been scheduled, you could use Reporting Services trace Log File to find which schedule deliveries this report. Please refer to this article:
Troubleshooting Subscriptions: Part II, Using the Reporting Services Trace Log File .
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
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Qiuyun Yu
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Issue in To: field on SSRS Subscriptions

Greetings!
Our organization just recently migrated to a new Microsoft Exchange server, at almost the exact same time as the workstations were upgraded to Windows 2013 and Office 2013. After the upgrade an issue with our SSRS Report subscriptions was discovered.
Report subscriptions that had been running fine prior, suddenly were failing. We were eventually able to figure out that if you entered just one email address in the To/CC/BCC fields it worked fine. As soon as you enter more than 1 email address
in any of those three fields, the email errors with 'The email address of one or more recipients is not valid'. We can take the exact same TO: line out of the Subscription line and paste it into Outlook and it works fine, so the address is valid.
It is just that after the first email address, It does not seem to recognize any additional addresses. Then I was examining the error message and noticed that when returned the to: line in the error message is this '[email protected], [email protected]'.
I know for SSRS subscriptions, email addresses need to be separated by semi colons so I check the subscription, and indeed there are semi colons in the subscription.
Does anyone have any idea what the issue here might be and how I can fix it before my users riot on me?

Hi SSRSnewbie,
As per my understanding, I think this issue can be caused by incorrect email relay setting between the SMTP server and the report server. In order to troubleshoot this issue, the following suggestions are for your reference:
Suggestion1:
Please make sure there is no space between an email address and the semi-colon, and add a space between the semi-colon and the email address behind it. For example, try the below:
[email protected];
[email protected]
Suggestion 2:
Double check whether the configuration options for SMTP service is correct, please using the settings mentioned as below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159155.aspx
If the issue is still existed, could you please post the settings in the RSreportserver.config file for SMTP server? Then we can make further analysis.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
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SSRS Subscriptions help

Hello all,
I need help in creating report subscription to run on every Wednesday for Year to last Friday.So we were to generate the report next week, we should generate it for 01/01/2014- 06/06/2014. I am new to SSRS subscriptions. Please help.
Thanks

we should generate it for 01/01/2014- 06/06/2014.
Hi Lshi123,
In Reporting Services, we can create subscription to send report to specified E-mail address on a schedule. However, the execute time on the schedule cannot be the past date. So in your scenario, we cannot create subscription and generate it for 01/01/2014/-06/06/2014.
Here are some link about SSRS subscription for you reference.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-IN/library/ms160334.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms154020.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO0Y_IxdE8w
If I have anything misunderstand, please point it out and elaborate your requirement, so that we can make further analysis.
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SSRS Subscription LastStatus "Failure sending mail: Failure sending mail."

SSRS 2012, SQL 2012 SP2.
We have about 50 different daily subscriptions that go out. In the last month or so, probably over 30% of SSRS subscriptions are getting this error and no e-mail is sent. I have tested out the reports with the parameters and the reports run just
fine on demand for both the user and myself. I'll change the subscription forward for testing, and it will intermittently work or fail even when no traffic is hitting our database so I dont think it's a matter of performance.
I see nothing in the error logs, and I see nothing in the logtable 2, or 3 in ssrs as suggested by a few MSDB sites.
The only spot I can even see this error, is when viewing the subscription. I have done LOTS of searching, and most people get a helpful error after "Failure sending mail" where as I only get 'Failure sending mail: Failure sending mail"

Hi,
Does your network is always available? Your scenario is so strange. Please check if you have missed something according to this article:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159155.aspx.

SSRS subscriptions in default zone of sharepoint 2013 are not showing in intranet zone and vice versa.

one of the Sharepoint 2013 site collection has alternate access mappings created. Default site is .com and intranet is .local.
So when we add SSRS subscription in .com - they are not showing in .local and vice- versa. How do we fix this so the subscriptions are same in both .com and .local.

Hi spanda,
Per my understanding that you have configured the alternate access mappings which Default site is .com and intranet is .local. But the subscription in one of the site will not list in another mapped site, right?
Actually, if you are on a different Alternate Access Mapping other than the Subscription was created on, we will get no subscriptions, Because we are using the method "Microsoft.ReportServices.SharePoint.UI.ManageSubscriptionPages"
to deal with the logic by creating the value for "m_reportUrl" using the current context of the URL the user is using and passing that to the "SubscriptionListControl". You can find the code in this article if you have some
knowledge of development:
SQL Server Reporting Services ignores Alternate Access Mappings When Checking for Report Subscriptions
I recommand you to submit an feedback at
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/
If the suggestion mentioned by customers for many times, the product team may consider to add the feature in the next SQL Server version. Your feedback is valuable for us to improve our products and increase the level of service
provided.
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Vicky Liu
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Email Recipient limits on SSRS Subscriptions - SharePoint Integrated mode

Hi I hope this is the right forum to post this question in.
I have had a requirement to setup our users to be able to create and manage there own mail delivery SSRS subscriptions, this is not a problem. However I have been asked to set a limit on the number of recipients they can specify in the "To" field,
and I am not sure how to do this.
We are running in SharePoint integrated mode (SharePoint 2010), with SSRS 2008 R2 and I cant find anywhere that I would set this up..... I have had a look through the rsreportserver.config and unable to find any nodes that allow me to set a limit, nor
have I been able to find it online. SharePoint doesnt seem to have anywhere to set this, and it seems to sit within SSRS.
The nearest I have got is someone has suggested that it can be limited on Exchange, but before I go down that route I wanted to find out if it is possible in either SharePoint or SSRS.
Could anybody offer some insight to this?
Thanks
Tim

Hi Tim,
As per my understanding, there is no maximum number of recipients per subscription limitation in Reporting Services. Just as you said, it depends on the SMTP server. For example, Exchange Server 2013 supports 500 recipients as the Recipient limit. This is
the default limit for Exchange Server 2013 organizations. Administrators can change this value for their organization.
References:
Exchange Online Limits
Subscription and Delivery (Reporting Services)
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
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Retrieve SSRS subscription info into SharePoint list

Hello,
Is there a solution to retrieve SSRS subscriptions info into a SharePoint list? Through TSQL I can access and get this information but I was trying to placed the info into a SharePoint list.
thank you.

You can get it through a web service. Here is how it is done via PowerShell:
http://thesharepointfarm.com/2013/12/quickly-identifying-reporting-services-subscriptions/
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Problem with BLANK Value in SSRS Subscription

I have a report that I designed in Vis Studio 2005 and have deployed to SSRS 2005. I have no issues what so ever when running it interactively out of Report Manager. However when running it scheduled via a subscription, I am running into trouble.
This report has a parameter called "Label". It is set up as a String parameter, Allow Blanks, and Multi-Value. (It does not allow me to select Null values...tells me "The properties for the currently selected item are not valid.") I am getting Available and Default values from a query I have created in a separate dataset. This query pulls in all possible values for Label, including a BLANK value (there are values that are and should be Blank).
In my subscription, I want to select all Labels but label 98, including the BLANK. So when I go in to create or edit a subscription, I simply uncheck the 98 label. I can see a blank checked as well. However when the subscription runs, the subscription status tells me " Failure sending mail: Default value or value provided for the report parameter 'Label' is not a valid value." This ONLY occurs when I have the BLANK label selected in my dropdown list!
However, when I run this interactively out of Report Manager, doing the exact same thing (selecting all labels other than label 98, INCLUDING the Blank), it works properly.
What could be going on here? Kinda new at this and totally stumped.
Tony

Hi Tony,
I met a similar issue before. If I understand correctly, there has Null values in the list not Blank values.
Using Null values in a parameter in subscription is not allowed.
To solve the issue, please change the Null values to Blank values by modifying the query statement of report:
SELECT ... IsNull(column, "") FROM...
By the way, please update the SQL Server Reporting Services to latest version too.
For SQL Server 2005, the latest version is Cumulative Update package 6 for SQL Server 2005 SP3.
SQL Server 2005 SP3: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ae7387c3-348c-4faa-8ae5-949fdfbe59c4
Cumulative Update #6 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3
For SQL Server 2008, the latest version is Cumulative Update package 4 for SQL Server 2008 SP1.
SQL Server 2008 SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19
Cumulative Update #4 for SQL Server 2008 SP1
Please feel free to ask, if you have any more questions.
Thanks,
Jin ChenJin Chen - MSFT

SSRS subscription issue

We use some reports in SCSM (standard and custom). About week ago one of custom reports lost formatting when send to e-mail in MHTML format. We didn't modify this report before issue.
Report display correctly:
1. In the SCSM console.
2. In the SSRS web interface.
3. In the e-mail when format isn't MHTML (report is attached to message)
4. In any supported format (including MHTML) after manual export.
5. In any supported format (including MHTML) when report is sent to SMB share by subscription.
Report display incorrectly (as plain text without images and formats) only when it is sent in MHTML format by e-mail subscription.
SSRS 2012 SP1.

Hi Roman1974,
Do you use embedded charts within in tablix? If so, please try to insert rectangles into the tablix before inserting charts.
Which browser do you use to view the subscription? Some browsers may not perfectly support the MHTML format. You can test the issue using Internet Explorer.
As a workaround, you can enable HTML 4.0 format for subscription and configure subscriptions to use this format instead of MHTML. To do this, please remove "Visible="false" for the HTML4.0 rendering extension in the RSreportserver.config file:
<Extension Name="HTML4.0" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.HtmlRenderer.Html40RenderingExtension,Microsoft.ReportingServices.HtmlRendering" Visible="false"/>
<Extension Name="MHTML" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.HtmlRenderer.MHtmlRenderingExtension,Microsoft.ReportingServices.HtmlRendering"/>
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Mike Yin
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SSRS Subscription Misrun

Hi,
I have a SSRS Report with a subscription scheduled to run quarterly Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct on the 1st of each month. The report ran this past Feb. 1st. I'm unsure why? Can this be fixed?
Thank you in advance.

Hi CheriseW,
Per my understanding that your subscription which should run quarterly at Jan/1, Apr/1, Jul/1,Oct/1 suddenly run at 02/01/2015, right?
Does the problem occurred only once or many times? The issue can be caused by many factors:
When a scheduled operation is defined, the report server creates a corresponding job in SQL Server Agent and runs the job on the date and time specified in the schedule. So please first check if someone have changed the commend in the job steps or someone
run the commend manually:
1. Find the Job name of this subscription by execute the query below: Job Name=ScheduleID
use ReportServer;
SELECT USR.UserName AS SubscriptionOwner
,SCH.ScheduleID
,SCH.NextRunTime
,SCH.LastRunTime
,SCH.EndDate
,SCH.EventData
,SUB.EventType
,SUB.SubscriptionID
,SUB.ModifiedDate
,SUB.[Description]
,SUB.DeliveryExtension
,SCH.Name AS ScheduleName
,CAT.[Path] AS ReportPath
,CAT.[Description] AS ReportDescription
FROM dbo.Subscriptions AS SUB
INNER JOIN dbo.Users AS USR
ON SUB.OwnerID = USR.UserID
INNER JOIN dbo.[Catalog] AS CAT
ON SUB.Report_OID = CAT.ItemID
INNER JOIN dbo.ReportSchedule AS RS
ON SUB.Report_OID = RS.ReportID
AND SUB.SubscriptionID = RS.SubscriptionID
INNER JOIN dbo.Schedule AS SCH
ON RS.ScheduleID = SCH.ScheduleID
ORDER BY USR.UserName
,CAT.[Path];
2. Right click the Job to select the "Properties" and select "Steps", double click to edit the commend to see if some one have change it, by default, it is like below:
exec [ReportServer].dbo.AddEvent @EventType='TimedSubscription', @EventData='836075c9-6945-4f26-8175-9da44c899af2'
The SQL Server Agent service may calculates an incorrect NEXT_RUN_TIME value for the job. Therefore, the job does not always run at the correct times. This issue occurs because an error causes a date value to be changed unexpectedly, the date value is used
to calculate the NEXT_RUN_TIME value. If you got the subscription execute at wrong time many times. please edit to reset the subscription to change the start date to now.
If you still have any problem, please feel free to ask.
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Vicky Liu
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SSRS Subscription Problem

Hi,
I have scheduled some report in SSRS ( SQL Server 2008 R2) , reports are generated at midnight and saved in a shared folder. It works fine generally, but On some days it fails, Job history shows success, but, files are not saved in shared folder.
What can be possible reason . Kindly help.
Thanking you in advance.
Regards,
Ram

Hi Ramprosad,
Based on the current description, I suggest you checking Event table in ReportServer database. If the Event table has no null values, it indicates the subscription data cannot delivery successfully. In this case, please manually restart Agent Job and Reporting
Services. If it’s not the case, please post the log file to the forum for further analysis.
Hope this helps.
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Heidi Duan
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SSRS Reports migration from 2005 to 2008R2

Hi ..
I have couple of questions.. looking for answers
Am new to report migration. We have 1000+ of reports in 2005 which we need to migrate to 2008R2. After googling theweb i got to know that we have an third party utility RSScripter which is used to move the reports from 2005 to 2008.
Question 1:
By using the above tool i was able to migrate the reports from 2005 to 2008. However, i am not able to redeploy the reports to sub folder in 2008..
Example i have some reports in 2005 at Dev_reports\Reports\.. when i want to copy these reports to Dev_reports\Reports folder they are not moved to sub folder Reports on destination server, but rather they are copied to root folder. Is there any why
that i can copy the reports to particular folder in destination server.
Question 2:
When moved the reports from 2005 to 2008 are all the reports are automatically upgraded and copied to new server(2008)? or we need to explicitly open each and every report in 2008 and deploy to the new report server(2008)?
And my third requirement is to create couple(2) solution for the above said reports and check in them to TFS as a reporting project.
one report project with all the reports from 2005 and another with all reports from 2008.
Appreciate your responses at the earliest. As this is on top priority.. Thanks in Advance
Sri

Hi Sri,
Per my understanding that you are using the RSScripter to move the reports from SSRS 2005 from SSRS 2008 R2, now your first problem is you don't know how to move the reports from the sub folder of 2005 to an specify folder on SSRS 2008 R2, right?
I have tested on my locak enviroment and can reproduce the issue, by default, when you execute the .cmd file the report will move to the new server's root folder, for example, you have an rdl report in SSRS 2005 which path is "/Test/report1.rdl"
, when you move to the SSRS 2008 R2 using the tool it will move to the path "home/Test/report1.rdl".
If you want to move this rdl to the specify folder "home/Test0323/Test/Report1.rdl" you should do the action as below:
Create the specify folder on the SSRS 2005 but not SSRS 2008 R2, move the subfolder and the rdl in it "/Test/report1.rdl" to the specify folder
find and check the "/Test0323/Test/Report1.rdl" in the RSScripter:
the Output will have the path like "Test0323/Test/Report1.rdl",after move to the SSRS 2008 R2, it will also create the path like "/Test0323/Test/Report1.rdl"
More details information about using the RSScripter tool:
Migrating SQL Reporting Services to a new server
For the second question, Generally, reports are not upgraded when you upload a report definition file directly to the report server or SharePoint site. The report is automatically upgraded the first time it is viewed, but the stored report definition file
remains unchanged. Upgrading a report definition in SQL Server Data Tools is the only way to upgrade the .rdl file.
Similar thread:
If I upload RDL 2005 template on SQL Server
2014 then will SQL Server 2014 render it without migrating it to 2014 ?
Details information about upgrade and migration in the below articles for your reference：
Upgrading Reports
Upgrade and Migrate Reporting Services
For the third question please reference to below article:
TFS Reports using SSRS
Using TFS2010 with Visual Studio / BIDS 2008 and SQL Server Management Studio
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SSRS Subscription - Email does not appear in the list

Hi!
I had some reports on ssrs and I want to send them by email. I've read that the option "email" shoul appear on the list "Delivered by".Does anyone knows why
IT DOES NOT APPEAR (edited)?
Thanks
<edit2>I'm using SQL Server 2012 BI Edition & Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2</edit2>

Hi Menri,
According to the code you post, I find that there are some incorrect settings in your rsreportserver.config file. For more details, please see the followings:
SMTPServerPort: Specifies an integer value indicating the port on which the SMTP service uses to send outgoing mail. Port 25 is typically used to send e-mail. So we should set this value to 25.
SMTPAuthenticate: Specifies how the report server connects to the remote SMTP server. To send e-mail to restricted distribution lists (for example, distribution lists that accept incoming messages only from authenticated accounts), set SMTPAuthenticate
to 2.
SendEmailToUserAlias: When SendEmailToUserAlias is set to True, users who define individual subscriptions are automatically specified as recipients of the report. The To field is hidden. If this value is False, the To field is visible.
DefaultHostName: This value works with SendEmailToUserAlias. Specifies a string value indicating the host name to append to the user alias when the SendEmailToUserAlias is set to true.
The code in my environment is for your reference:
<Extension Name="Report Server Email" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.EmailDeliveryProvider.EmailProvider,ReportingServicesEmailDeliveryProvider">
<MaxRetries>3</MaxRetries>
<SecondsBeforeRetry>900</SecondsBeforeRetry>
<Configuration>
<RSEmailDPConfiguration>
<SMTPServer> smtp.gmail.com</SMTPServer>
<SMTPServerPort>25</SMTPServerPort>
<SMTPAccountName>
</SMTPAccountName>
<SMTPConnectionTimeout>
</SMTPConnectionTimeout>
<SMTPServerPickupDirectory>
</SMTPServerPickupDirectory>
<SMTPUseSSL>
</SMTPUseSSL>
<SendUsing>2</SendUsing>
<SMTPAuthenticate>2</SMTPAuthenticate>
<From> [email protected]</From>
<EmbeddedRenderFormats>
<RenderingExtension>MHTML</RenderingExtension>
</EmbeddedRenderFormats>
<PrivilegedUserRenderFormats>
</PrivilegedUserRenderFormats>
<ExcludedRenderFormats>
<RenderingExtension>HTMLOWC</RenderingExtension>
<RenderingExtension>NULL</RenderingExtension>
<RenderingExtension>RGDI</RenderingExtension>
</ExcludedRenderFormats>
<SendEmailToUserAlias>False</SendEmailToUserAlias>
<DefaultHostName>smtp.gmail.com</DefaultHostName>
<PermittedHosts>
</PermittedHosts>
</RSEmailDPConfiguration>
</Configuration>
Please refer to the helpful documents below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159155.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157273.aspx
If there are any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
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Default Date Parameters for SSRS Subscription

I have a SSRS 2008 R2 report running on a Sharepoint 2010 site.
It has two date parameters (Beginning and Ending Date).
The defaults of these dates are calculated correctly when running interactively.
For example:
=DateAdd("d",-28, Today)
=DateAdd("d",-1, Today)
However, when you create a subscription the defaults are based on when the report is submitted and not when the report is executed.
Is there anyway to set a subscription to pull the default parameters every time when executed.
Thanks in advance.

Hi miguelh,
Based on my research, if we specified the report parameters with “Use Report Default Value” is checked in the subscription, we could get the report from this subscription with the default value. The default values are based on the expression when the subscription
is executed, rather than the time when we create the subscription. If today is 7/21/2014, the Beginning Date is 6/23/2014, Ending Date is 7/20/2014.
So, please double check you have typed the expressions as the default values in the two date parameters and we have select the “Use Report Default Value” as the parameter values when creating the subscription .
If there are any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
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