Service Pack 2 of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Released
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You also can get to the SP2 download information from the following sites:
On behalf of the Reporting Services team, thank you for your involvement in releasing this service pack. With your input, we identified and addressed major issues -- thus making SP2 and Reporting Services as a whole a much better product.
Kind Regards,
The SQL Server Reporting Service Product Team
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Key Functional Enhancements
- SharePoint Web parts enable you to explore and view reports located on a report server by using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal Server.
- Reports can now be printed directly from within Internet Explorer. A Microsoft ActiveX control is provided to support a rich client-side printing experience including full page preview.
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A lis of the bugs that have been fixed in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP2
For additional information about the bugs that have been fixed in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2 Beta, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
- 872774 : FIX: You may receive a zero-byte attachment in e-mail when e-mail subscriptions are sent to Lotus Domino e-mail servers by SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
- 885286 FIX: The Reporting Services trace log file size may increase unexpectedly
- 883675 FIX: Invalid values appear in a chart if you change the default color for the value series of the chart in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 1
- 875518 FIX: Width of a list that contains an embedded matrix grows unexpectedly when you export a report to PDF format
- 885444 FIX: PDF files that are exported by SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services can only be opened by using Adobe Acrobat Reader
- 883501 FIX: You receive a "Width of excel cell in the excel sheet exceeded the maximum limit of 1726.5 points" error message when you export a Reporting Services report to Excel
- 889400 FIX: Description of the problems that are fixed in hotfix build 8.0.902 in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
- 883647 FIX: When you render a report to a PDF file, the page breaks are incorrect in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
- 896374 An image is not repeated on every page of a PDF file after you click to select the "Repeat Report Item with data region on every page" check box and export the report to a PDF file in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
- 897126 FIX: Rendering of a report in Office Excel may unexpectedly contain margins when you export the report from SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
- 897123 FIX: A hidden report table may unexpectedly appear in an Office Excel worksheet when the table was exported from SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
The following Microsoft Knowledge Base article describes a new feature in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2:
- 897121 How to disable client-side printing by using the EnableClientPrinting system property in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2