Reporting Services 2008 - Anonymous Access

Hello,

In SSRS 2005 I was able to grant anonymous access to my reports by changing the authentication mode for the Reporting Services virtual directory in IIS to Anonymous and then adding the 'account used for anonymous access' to the permissions on the appropriate Reporting Services directories (in report manager).

Now with SSRS 2008 there are no virtual directories in IIS.

I tried to follow the instructions given:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281310.aspx (Authentication Types in Reporting Services)

Which instructed me to use the custom AuthenticationType, and following the instructions here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281383.aspx (How to: Configure Custom or Forms Authentication in Reporting Services)

which just got me an error:

• The Authentication Extension threw an unexpected exception or returned a value that is not valid: . (rsAuthenticationExtensionError) Get Online Help
  • For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors

Any ideas on how to set up anonymous access to SSRS2008?

Thanks for any time and help!

-Tim