FIX: Clients cannot connect to the Report Server Web service in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

You install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. A client makes an anonymous request to the Report Server Web service. The anonymous request is the initial request to the Report Server Web service. In this scenario, the client may receive an error message that resembles the following: After the client receives the error message, other clients cannot connect to the Report Server Web service.

Note This problem can occur when the Report Server Web service receives the initial request directly or by using Report Manager.

This problem can occur if the user account that makes the initial request does not have read permissions on the following registry key: If the user account that makes the initial request does not have read permissions on the registry key, the Web service is not initialized correctly.

The fix for this issue was first released in Cumulative Update 1. For more information about how to obtain this cumulative update package for SQL Server 2008, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Note Because the builds are cumulative, each new fix release contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous SQL Server 2008 fix release. We recommend that you consider applying the most recent fix release that contains this hotfix. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

To work around this problem and enable clients to connect to the Report Server Web service, restart the AppDomain.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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