André Krijnen

Today was the day I could install Service Pack 1 for Reporting Services 2008 R2 at a customer which has SharePoint 2010 with Reporting Services 2008 r2 integrated. Before Service Pack 1 we had alot of performance issues with Reporting Services. It didn’t perform while the hardware was more then sufficient. Sometimes it took more then 30 ms to load a simple report.

Today I installed the Service Pack 1 for Reporting Services, and it didn’t take alot of time to install it. Even while it is virtualized.

I installed the following updates:

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

Also what I did is installing the following features from the SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Feature Pack:

• SQLSERVER2008_ASADOMD10.msi
• SQLSERVER2008_ASAMO10.msi
• SQLSERVER2008_ASOLEDB10.msi
• SqlCmdLnUtils.msi
• SharedManagementObjects.msi
• PowerShellTools.msi

All are installed on the server which runs SharePoint 2010 and Reporting Services 2008 r2.

After reboot. I checked the performance again to check if it installed correctly without any errors. I did, SharePoint Server ran, and started some reports. While it took the same time to run the Reports like before I took the time to install some more from the feature pack.

I installed the SQL Server 2008 Native Client on each server running SharePoint. When you run the prerequisite installer it installs also the SQL Server 2008 Native Client. So when it was done, I rebooted the servers which had these updates.

When the SharePoint Server cames up, I ran the rsSharePoint.msi from the Feature Pack on every server in the SharePoint farm.

Run the installer like this: msiexec /i rsSharePoint.msi skipca=1

It checks if the addin is installed, and asks if you want to update the Package. Of course, yes.

It takes about 30 seconds to install and it is done.

Now I started SharePoint and checked the Reports which I ran before, and the performance increased more then I could imagine. Even SharePoint reacted more snappy as before. It looks like Microsoft made some major performance increasements on the Native Client and the Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint.

My advice: install it!

So after some time Microsoft just released there first Service Pack for SQL Server 2008 R2. This package contains alot of improvements regarding to performances for Analysis Services.

You can download SP1 here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20302

Also when you’ve running SharePoint Server 2010 with Reporting Services integrated you should update your Reporting Services to the latest Service Pack. Also an important notice to this, you should also download the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Feature Pack to accomplish some other improvements.

You can download SP1 Feature Packs here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26728

When you’ve downloaded the Feature Packs you should also install the following components to all SharePoint Servers:

• rsSharePoint.msi
• sqlncli.msi
• SQLSERVER2008_ASADOMD10.msi

The first one is the SQL Server 2008 r2 Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint Server 2010

The second is the SQL Server Client 2008 which you also have to install when you install the prerequisites for SharePoint Server 2010.

The third is also a component which is used in the prerequisite for SharePoint Server 2010.