System Center Configuration Manager 2007 : Reporting Configuration (part 2) - Copying ConfigMgr Classic Reports to SQL Reporting Services, Report Categories

3. Copying ConfigMgr Classic Reports to SQL Reporting Services

You must copy your existing classic reports to Reporting Services because establishing SRS does not automatically generate these reports. To copy ConfigMgr classic reports to Reporting Services, perform the following steps:

1.	Expand the Configuration Manager console tree to System Center Configuration Manager -> Site Database -> Computer Management -> Reporting -> Reporting Services. Right-click the reporting services point server, and choose the option to Copy Reports to Reporting Services.
2.	On the Data Source Settings page, enter the site database server name and database name from which you will copy the reports. Figure 4 displays the Data Source Settings page for the Bluebonnet server and the SMS_CEN database. Figure 4. The Copy Reports Wizard Data Source Settings page
3.	On the Data Source Authentication page, choose the option that Reporting Services uses to authenticate to the data source. By default, the data source authentication you configured on the report server Properties page is used. If you select the credentials stored securely in the report server option, you need to reenter the password to complete this dialog box.
4.	The Select Reports page, shown in Figure 5, allows you to choose the reports you want to copy to SRS. You can include any custom reports you created in addition to those reports supplied with Configuration Manager. Figure 5. The Copy Reports Wizard Data Select Reports page
5.	The Security page allows you to modify the security settings for the copied reports. By default, the reports inherit the security from the SRS report folder.
6.	The Summary page displays the options you selected. Click Next to initiate the copy operation. The wizard now displays the progress for copying each report, as shown in Figure 6. Figure 6. The Copy Reports Wizard Copy Progress page You can double-click each item showing a warning or error status to review the associated messages. The warnings displayed in Figure 18.8 indicate the report descriptions have been truncated to conform to the SRS maximum of 512 characters. Click Next to view a confirmation page displaying the overall results of the Copy Reports Wizard.

After copying the reports to SRS, you can use the ConfigMgr console to view and administer both types of reports. You can also view either type of report using a web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE).

4. Report Categories

Microsoft provides more than 300 ready-made reports that you can use directly or modify to meet your reporting requirements. Table 1 shows the report categories and the number of reports in each category available with ConfigMgr 2007 R2.