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Roles and Permissions (Reporting Services)

Reporting Services provides an authentication subsystem and role-based authorization model. Authentication and authorization models vary depending on whether the report server runs in native mode or SharePoint mode. If the report server is part of a SharePoint deployment, SharePoint permissions determine who has access to the report server.

Identity and Access Control for Native Mode

Default authentication is based on Windows Authentication and integrated security. You can change the authentication settings to allow the report server to respond to different authentication requests, or even replace the default security features with a custom authentication extension that you provide.

Authorization is based on roles that you assign to a principal. Each role consists of a set of related tasks, which are in turn composed of related operations. For example, the Manage reports task grants access to the following report server operations: view reports, add report, update report, delete report, schedule report, and update report properties.

Identity and Access Control for SharePoint Mode

In SharePoint integrated mode, authentication and authorization are handled on the SharePoint site, before requests reach the report server. Depending on how you configure authentication, requests from a SharePoint site include a security token or a trusted user name. Permissions that you set for SharePoint users and groups authorize access to report server items that are placed in SharePoint libraries.

In This Section

Granting Permissions on a Native Mode Report Server Describes the role-based authorization model that provides access to content and operations.

Granting Permissions on Report Server Items on a SharePoint Site Explains how SharePoint groups, permission levels, and permissions are used to control access to a report server.

Authentication with the Report Server Granting Permissions on a Native Mode Report Server

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Granting access in SSRS to reports

Before you provide reports to your users, you need to give them the appropriate access within the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services application. You use the SSRS role-based security to assign Active Directory users and groups to SSRS roles for both the site and folders.

Anyone reading reports will also need to configure their Internet Explorer installation, as mentioned in Adding your report services web site to your Internet Explorer trusted sites .

Please consult Microsoft documentation for the most current instructions for security configuration and granting access in SSRS. For example, some information can be found at this link:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-server/configure-a-native-mode-report-server-for-local-administration-ssrs?view=sql-server-2016

However, for your convenience, a couple procedures are below.

To grant report administrator access in SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services):

In Internet Explorer, go to your Report Manager URL.

You can open the Microsoft Reporting Services Configuration Manager to view the Report Manager URL.

Internet Explorer opens SQL Server Reporting Servies to your Report Manager URL.

Click Site Settings , and create a new role assignment so that you can assign the desired Active Directory group to the “System Administrator” role in SSRS.

To create a new role assignment, click Security , then New Role Assignment .

Click Home , and then click Folder settings . From there, create a new role assignment so that you can grant access to the “Content Manager” role.

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To grant access so that the user can edit or build reports, you can give them additional permissions in SSRS, such as the Report Builder permission to the Home folder.

To grant report read access in SSRS (an overview):

In SSRS, go to Site Settings, and create a new role assignment so that you can assign the desired Active Directory group to the “System user” role in SSRS.

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By default, all authenticated users are assigned to the System User role.

In SSRS, go to the Home folder, and then click Folder settings. From there, create a new role assignment so that you can grant access to at least the “Browser” role.

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Have you ever needed to know which groups or users have access to your reports?

Use the following query to get a comprehensive list of who has access to what.

Sample output (fist 4 lines from my test machine):

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Configure Security on the Report Server

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If you choose Credentials supplied by the user running the report or Windows Integrated Security for Reporting Services Authentication , then each user or group of users who are permitted to view reports must be granted Browse permissions in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

Log on to SQL Server Reporting Services using the ReportWriter account.

You may need to run Internet Explorer with Administrator rights to initially configure the security.

Add a Browser role to permit Privilege Management users to see reports in SSRS.

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How Permissions can be Granted in SQL Server Report Service

In this article, we look at roles being used to grant permissions on the report server. We also look at who sets these permissions how these permissions are stored.

Reporting Services in SQL Server use a role-based authorization and authentication subsystem in order to determine the users who can perform an operation or access items on a report server. Role-based system is used for categorizing authorization of different roles and action which can be performed by a user or a group. This authentication is based on custom authentication module or built-in Windows Authentication that is provided to the users. Users can custom or predefine roles using either of these authentication types.

How Permissions can be Granted in Report Service

Using Role to Grant Permissions on the Report Server

All users interact or access a report server based on the role that is defined to a specific level for a specific person or a group. Reporting Services include predefined roles which can be assigned to users or groups in order to provide them with immediate access to interact with a report server. Content Manager, Browser, and Publisher are some common examples of these predefined roles. Each of these roles, define a collection of different related tasks. For instance, a Publisher has the permission of adding reports and creating folders for storing these reports.

Role assignments are inherited from the parent node, but users can break this permission of inheritance by simply creating a new role of assignment for each particular item. Note that a user can be a member of Content Manager Role in one report and might also be a member of another report for of Browser role.

Guidelines for granting access to different report server operations and items

1.    Review all predefined roles and determine whether they can be used as it is. If the user needs to adjust any tasks or define any additional roles, he/she should do it before assigning users to specific roles.

2.    Identify users or groups that require access to that particular report server, and on what levels. Most users are assigned to Browser role or Report Builder role. And only selective users need to be assigned for Publisher role. And Content Manager Role should only be assigned to the trusted officials.

3.    Use Report Manager for assigning roles in the Home folder for each group or user who requires access.

4.    Then go to Report Manager’s Site Settings page and create an assignment for system-level roles for each group or user, using predefined roles System Administrator and System User.

5.    Create additional assignments for assigning access to specific folders, reports, and other items. Avoid creating too many role assignments.

Who Sets These Permissions?

Initially, Report server can be accessed by the local administrator’s group or its members. Reporting Services are installed with only two default roles assignments which are used for system-level and granting item-level access to local administrators group and its member. These groups and members are responsible for assigning permission to other users.

How Are These Permissions Stored?

Report Server stores its role definitions and assignments in its database. If a user uses multiple programmatic interfaces or client tools, the access is subjected to the permissions which are defined as a whole for the report server. Role assignment is stored with all the items that they secure, that allow the user to move a database to a different report server without losing the defined permissions.

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