Reporting Services Frustrations

Chuck — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:32:00 GMT

Have you ever been so frustrated with a software installation that you just ended up doing a fresh OS install and starting over?

I got that way last week trying to install Team Foundation Server 2008.

I wanted to install a named instance of SQL Server on my data tier, but Team Foundation Server wasn't too happy with the named instance of Reporting Services. So, I gave up on the named instance and decided to install the default instance.

The problem was that Reporting Services wouldn't uninstall.

Apparently, the Reporting Services uninstall expects the IIS virtual directories to be present so that they can be removed. Since Team Foundation Server configures Reporting Services and I didn't go through that configuration, the virtual directories did not exist. I ended up tweaking the registry to remove the service registration and then deleting the Reporting Services directory from the hard drive.

Not fun, but I hope that others can benefit from my pain!

Chuck

Me, My Database and I : SQL Server, Reporting Services

Reporting Services Frustrations