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created the topic: Deploying SSRS reports using Wix Installer.<\/strong>
\nWhat is the best way to deploy SSRS reports using WiX 3.0 installer?<\/p>\n

InstallerGeek replied the topic: Re: Deploying SSRS reports using Wix Installer.<\/strong>
\nPut them in a folder and tell the user to upload them.<\/p>\n

Sad, but true.<\/p>\n

replied the topic: Re: Deploying SSRS reports using Wix Installer.<\/strong>
\nA couple years ago I wrote a C#\/DTF CA and some custom tables in WiX to call into the SSRS webservice to create the directories, datasources and reports associating the reports to the datasource.<\/p>\n

It was pretty primitive ( SSRS doesn’t support transacted installs and since the webservice could be on a different machine you might not want to use no impersonation ) but it worked well. The next step was to refactor to a WiX extension but I changed jobs and never got around to it.<\/p>\n

So it can be done without requiring manual steps or going out of process to an EXE and scripts.<\/p>\n

InstallerGeek replied the topic: Re: Deploying SSRS reports using Wix Installer.<\/strong>
\nCould you please share some more information about this implementation. This seem the best so far.<\/p>\n

The rdl files would be embedded within MSI package, how would those be extracted by the c# CA?<\/p>\n

replied the topic: Re: Deploying SSRS reports using Wix Installer.<\/strong>
\nAt the time, because SSRS doesn’t support transact and the webservice being on a different machine makes deferred no impersonation pointless, I was running the CA in immeadiate execution. Because of this I had access to the Binary table to extract the files.<\/p>\n

However you could also use the File table to install the files somewhere and then use a immeadiate\/commit custom action pair to marshal over the location of the installed files and use them that way.<\/p>\n

If you want, I can send you what I have. It’s not perfectly elegant, just a working prototype that seems to have survived quite nicely after my departure.<\/p>\n

InstallerGeek replied the topic: Re: Deploying SSRS reports using Wix Installer.<\/strong>
\nThere is a script based install process here that might help you:
\nneilsleightholm.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/rep…oader-for-sql-server <\/a>
\n-reporting.html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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