Installing Reporting Services SharePoint Mode Report Server for Power View and Data Alerting

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10/30/2015

Reporting Services in SharePoint mode is a collection of server components that provide report generation and delivery, based on Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SharePoint products.

Running Reporting Services in SharePoint mode provides the Power View and data alerting features. For more information regarding features in SharePoint mode, see the section “Feature Support and Behavior Differences by Server Mode” in Reporting Services Report Server

Applies to: SharePoint 2013 | Note: Reporting Services SharePoint mode does not support SharePoint Server multi-tenancy.

For information regarding SQL Server 2012 SP1 and installation with SharePoint Server 2013, see Install SQL Server BI Features with SharePoint 2013 (SQL Server 2012 SP1) and The “SQL Server 2012 SP1” section of Overview of SQL Server Servicing Installation.

There are two fundamental installations needed for Reporting Services in SharePoint mode:

Installation	Description
The Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services add-in for SharePoint 2010 products.	The add-in installs the Reporting Services user interface (UI) pages and features on a SharePoint web front-end server. The UI features include Power View, administration pages in SharePoint Central Administration, feature pages used within SharePoint document libraries, and Reporting Services Data Alerting pages.
The Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services report server installed in SharePoint Mode	The report server handles the data and report processing and rendering as well subscription and Data Alert processing. The SharePoint mode report server is architected and installed as a SharePoint Shared Service.