I didn't know if i should post this in reporting services or sharepoint. The error is thrown by reporting services so I am posting it here.
Sometime in the last month reporting services on sharepoint server starting throwing errors for no reason out of the blue, and is completely unusable. Its sharepoint 2010 (SP1) integrated with reporting services 2012. We cannot open a report in report builder, run a report, open a report data source or create a new data source without the following error:
Report Server has encountered a SharePoint error. ---> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.SharePointException: Report Server has encountered a SharePoint error. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {BDEADF26-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F} failed due to the following error: 800703fa. ---> System.Exception: For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors
We also get this error in Sharepoint Central Administration... <appplication management> <service applications> <RS service application> <system settings>
I did nothing to this server in the last few month, we created no new reports, manually installed nothing, etc.
I have spent the last few days looking at this and it looks like the following items were installed within the last month from some network update:
1/21/2013: Miscrosoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x64)
1/21/2013: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable (x64)
1/21/2013: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable (x86)
1/16/2012: Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 DPM Protection Agent
Does anyone know if any of these updates could possibly be causing this error in reporting services/sharepoint? Possibly something is out of sync now and I need to install another service pack?
I don’t know much about Sharepoint, and I really don’t want to reinstall the whole thing. Any input is appreaciated.