Installation guide

Procedure
1. Log in to your Windows Server 2008 R2 machine as a user who has domain administrator privileges.
2. Start Active Directory Domain Services and select Active Directory Users and Computers.
3. Verify whether AD accounts exist in your domain for the SQLServer service and the VCM IIS
Application Pool.
4. If the accounts do not exist, create them.
a. Set the database account to be a local administrator on the database server.
b. Make the Application Pool account a local administrator on the VCM Collector in a single-tier
installation.
5. Select the Computers container and locate the Web system.
a. Open the properties for Web system.
b. Click the Delegation tab.
c. Select Trust this computer for delegation to any service.
6. Open IIS manager and set the identity of the CMAppPool application pool to the IISaccount.
7. In Reporting Services Configuration Manager, configure the SQL Server Reporting Services service to
run as the IISApplication Pool account.
8. Change SQL Server to run as the SQLServerDomain account.
a. In Reporting Services Configuration Manager, click Encryption Keys and click Delete to delete
encrypted content.
b. In the navigation pane, click Service Account and enter the app_pool_account account for the
database connection.
9. Open a command prompt to set the service principal names directory property for the Active
Directory service accounts.
a. Click Start, select All Programs > Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as
administrator.
b. Type: Setspn -a MSSQLSvc/db_server_name domain\sql_server_account_name and press Enter.
c. Type: Setspn -a MSSQLSvc/db_server_name:1433 domain\sql_server_account_name and press
Enter.
d. Type: Setspn -a MSSQLSvc/db_server_fqdn domain\sql_server_account_name and press Enter.
e. Type: Setspn -a MSSQLSvc/db_server_fqdn:1433 domain\sql_server_account_name and press
Enter.
10. Verify whether SSRSis running on the SQLServer and if it is not running, locate and update the
Report Server configuration file named rsreportserver.config.
a. Locate the AuthenticationTypes XML element.
b. Remove <RSWindowsNTLM/> and <RSWindowsBasic/>.
c. Add <RSWindowsNegotiate/> and <RSWindowsKerberos/>.
The default location for the configuration file is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\
{reporting-services-instance}\Reporting
Services\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config.
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