How awesome is it that more than 600 canned Dynamics SL back-office reports are available to Business Portal Users? Quite. It should be possible to get the right information to all the users that need it. But getting the Report Scheduler to work on Dynamics SL 7.0 can be a little challenging.
You have to install the Solomon Client, but not the full version of Microsoft Solomon on the server that is running the Business Portal. Most installations will have a database server where the full Solomon application is installed. From there, you have a Workstation folder (Wrkstn). When they say the "Microsoft Solomon Client, but not the full version," they mean that you're installing the Microsoft Client the same way you do on client desktops, with a mapped network drive to the Wrkstn folder for the install, and to the rest of the program files mapped to \\SolomonServer\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftDynamics\SL\Applications...
You also need to make sure you have SP in that same shared network drive, and run the SP1 upgrade from there.
Finally, you have to run BPSLClientSetup.exe on the server that is running the Business Portal as shown in screenshot below:
Next, you'll want to make sure you have access to the SampleReports share:
The users that need access to this Share are:
- Network Service
- The Windows User running the Application Server
- The identity of the user for the Microsoft.BusinessPortal.Reports.FileService COM+ object
- The identity for the application pool that is used by the Business Portal
Refer to KB Article 912961 for more details on these accounts.
Lastly, you're ready to make sure your Application Server is running.
This I'll cover later.
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