Robert MacLean
3 June 2008
I watched a guy (doesn't work with me, works for another company) today duplicate a SQL Reporting Services ReportServer virtual directory by saving the existing one to file using normal IIS and creating a new one. There is a decent enough reason for doing this, but that doesn't matter.
This failed, badly. Reporting services kept complaining about not being able to find the <server path>/REPORTSERVER/bin folder.
The solution to this actually was to remove the folder he created, use reporting services configuration tool to create a new one and then do an IIS reset (thanks Bruce for the iis reset). This created a perfectly working report server folder and with the original one left untouched it continued to work correctly.
This failed, badly. Reporting services kept complaining about not being able to find the <server path>/REPORTSERVER/bin folder.
The solution to this actually was to remove the folder he created, use reporting services configuration tool to create a new one and then do an IIS reset (thanks Bruce for the iis reset). This created a perfectly working report server folder and with the original one left untouched it continued to work correctly.