Hi all,
We have a 3 servers in our farm, two of which Run SQL Server 2008R2 and one which runs SQL Server 2008.
All three servers have the same edition of Visual Studio on (VS2008).
Our development server (the 2008 server) has Report Builder 3 on it and our Analysts use this to connect to our Sharepoint which works off one of the 2008R2 boxes.
i have been asked by one of the Senior Analysts if they can have access to BIDs for report development. However for some reason, even though all 3 servers have the same version of BIDs, the RDLs that they create cannot be opened correctly on the 2008 Server. Instead they open as HTML and a warning is given :-
"The report definition has an invalid target namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/reportdefinition' which cannot be upgraded"
I am presuming that it is deriving the namespace from the locally installed version of 2008 Reporting Services. However as there is no need for the Analysts to use this, as the reports are deployed and run off the 2008 R2 Reporting Services via the Sharepoint Server, and Report Builder is happy with this, is there some way that I can tell BIDs to look elsewhere for the namespace validation?
The software itself is obviously able to read the report correctly as we have the same version on all servers and when BIDs is opened on an R2 server the reports display correctly.
Has anyone got any suggestions (except upgrade the 2008 box - I am working on this!!) ?
Iain