've had to go through installing reporting services on IIS7 a couple of times now (on Vista machines for development

environments - but the same rules apply for IIS7 on Windows Server 2008). When running the install for SQL Server 2005 the option to install Reporting Services was not available. I double checked that I had IIS and ASP.NET extensions installed. They both were, but I still couldn't get the SQL installer to enable the Reporting Services option. It turns out that Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005 is dependent on the IIS6 or earlier structure. Thankfully, IIS7 supports IIS6 backwards compatibility. Here are the steps to install the additional windows components prior to running the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services setup. 1. Open "Programs and Features" from your Control Panel.

2. Click on "Turn Windows features on or off"

3. Install the following features

-Internet Information Services - -Web Management Tools - - -IIS 6 Management Compatibility - - - -IIS 6 WMI Compatibility - - - -IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility - -World WIde Web Services - - -Application Development Features - - - -ASP.NET - - - -ISAPI Extensions - - - -ISAPI Filters - - -Common Http Features - - - -Default Document - - - -Directory Browsing - - - -HTTP Redirection - - - -Static Content - - -Security - - - -Windows Authentication

Once these are installed you should be able to install SQL Server 2005 with Reporting Services (and all other add ons as well). Make sure you install SQL Server SP2 once the installation is complete.

The first screen to be displayed is the end user license agreement(EULA). The user is expected to read through the license agreement and accept the license before he can proceed any further. After accepting the license agreement, click on Next to proceed.

The next screen informs the user that some of the required components will be checked for and upgraded. Setup installs some necessary components prior to beginning the SQL Server installation and before any files are installed, the System Consistency Checker verifies that there are no problems that will prevent installation.

Note that .NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft SQL Native Client and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup support files have to be installed. The finish button is to be clicked. Now the Welcome screen appears.

The next step is the system configuration check. The report of the check is displayed to the user. The success or failure of the check is reported along with warnings if any.

Once the user clicks continue the installation begins.

The next step is to enter the registration information. The user enters his name, company name and the serial number as it appears on the yellow sticker on the cover of the DVD. The user then clicks on Next to continue.

Next the components to be installed have to be specified. The user can chose to install all the components or some of the components. Some of these components require further configuration information and the user will be prompted to enter such information if the components are selected. If the SQL Server is being installed on a cluster, the user will be required to enter cluster information.

On clicking Next, the Feature selection dialog box appears. All the selected features are displayed.

On clicking next the user is prompted to select the instance name. If he selects Default instance no name need be specified. If he selects Named instance, he will have to specify a name for the instance. Click Next to continue.

The user is now prompted to enter the details of the service account which is to be used for login to the server. The local or Domain user account can be selected. The security context required to run the SQL server demands that a user account be specified during installation. By default Windows authentication mode is supported.

The Authentication mode dialog box appears. The user must specify the authentication mode. It can be Windows authentication or Mixed mode. The user must assign a login irrespective of the mode selected. He must enter the password and confirm it before clicking next to continue.

The next dialog box is the Collation Settings dialog box. Collation settings define the sorting behaviour of the server. SQL server collations are used for setting up compatibility with earlier versions of SQL Servers.

The Report server database setup dialog box which appears requires the user to specify the instance of the SQL Server which will host the report server database. Select Host in current instance of SQL Server and specify the report server database name and click next to continue.

The Next dialog box is the Report Server Delivery Settings dialog box. The user has to specify the parameters required for sending email reports. Click Next to continue if you do not wish to enter any details here.

The Error Reporting dialog box appears prompting the user that SQL server, its components and Analysis services will be configured to send fatal service error reports to Microsoft or a corporate error reporting server. The user can select the check box and click next as this helps Microsoft in monitoring its services and improving upon its software. Click Next to continue.

The ready to install dialog box displays all the components that are going to be installed on the system. To proceed with the installation the user has to click on Next.

The setup progress bar is displayed. On completion of set up the Next button will become enabled and the user has to click on Next to proceed.

The next dialog box displays all the files that are being configured. The user has to click on Next to continue.

The last dialog box displays the progress of the set up. All the selected components being configured are displayed and their status indicated. Click on Next to continue.

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This takes the user to the final screen of the setup. The system is required to be rebooted for the configuration to take effect. The user is asked to click on finish to reboot the system. The user is informed that any errors in set up are recorded in the summary log for future reference. Click on Finish to complete the process.

In the section that follows we shall see how this installation is maintained.