How to configure/Enable the form based authentication in SSRS 2008 RS

Question

I have two reports , one is for internal users and another one is for external users,

For internal Users i need to enable form authentication to view the report instead of creating the user accounts in the server.

For external User i do not want to enable any authentication, so that they can access the report from the browser without any authentication.

I followed the below steps by using the SSRS samples from the below link, after did all the changes i am getting HTTP500 Error. please help to enable this form based authentication.

modify the RSReportServer.config file

Step 1:-

<Authentication>
    <AuthenticationTypes> 
        <Custom/>
    </AuthenticationTypes>
    <EnableAuthPersistence>true</EnableAuthPersistence>
</Authentication>

Step 2:-

<Security>
    <Extension Name="Forms" 
Type="Microsoft.Samples.ReportingServices.CustomSecurity.Authorization, 
Microsoft.Samples.ReportingServices.CustomSecurity" >
        <Configuration>
            <AdminConfiguration>
                <UserName>username</UserName>
            </AdminConfiguration>
        </Configuration>
    </Extension>
</Security>
<Authentication>
    <Extension Name="Forms" Type="Microsoft.Samples.ReportingServices.CustomSecurity.AuthenticationExtension, Microsoft.Samples.ReportingServices.CustomSecurity" />
</Authentication>

Step 3:-

<UI>
    <CustomAuthenticationUI>
        <loginUrl>/Pages/UILogon.aspx</loginUrl>
        <UseSSL>True</UseSSL>
    </CustomAuthenticationUI>
    <ReportServerUrl>http://<server>/ReportServer</ReportServerUrl>
</UI> 

modify the RSSrvPolicy.config file

Step 4:-

<CodeGroup
class="UnionCodeGroup"
version="1"
Name="SecurityExtensionCodeGroup"
Description="Code group for the sample security extension"
PermissionSetName="FullTrust">
    <IMembershipCondition 
    class="UrlMembershipCondition"
    version="1"
    Url="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10_50.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin\Microsoft.Samples.ReportingServices.CustomSecurity.dll"
    />
</CodeGroup> 

modify the RSMgrPolicy.config file

Step 5:-

<CodeGroup 
class="FirstMatchCodeGroup" 
version="1" 
PermissionSetName="FullTrust"
Description="This code group grants MyComputer code Execution permission. ">
    <IMembershipCondition 
    class="ZoneMembershipCondition"
    version="1"
    Zone="MyComputer" /> "}*To use Forms Authentication, you need to modify the Web.config files for Report Manager and Report Server

modify the Web.config file for Report Server

Step 6:-

<authentication mode="Forms">
    <forms loginUrl="logon.aspx" name="sqlAuthCookie" timeout="60" path="/">        
    </forms>
</authentication>
Add the following <authorization> element directly after the <authentication> element.
<authorization> 
    <deny users="?" />
</authorization>. 

Web.config file for Report Manager

Step 7 :-

Disable impersonation by locating the section <identity impersonate= "true" /> and changing it to the following: <identity impersonate="false" />.
Locate the <authentication> element and change the Mode attribute to Forms.
Add the following keys to the <appSettings> element.
<add key="ReportServer" value="<Server Name>"/>
<add key="ReportServerInstance" value="<Instance Name>"/>

Reference URL https://msftrsprodsamples.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=SS2008R2%21Security%20Extension%20Sample&FocusElement=Comment

After performing all the above steps , when i am trying to register user i am getting the error called Keyword not supported: 'mssqlserver;integrated security'.

Answer 1

Kindly check this setting to access direct without form authentication.

<allow users="*" />

Check this line to show form authentication.

<deny users="?" /> 

web.config setting in application.

 <authorization>
        <allow roles="Administrator" />
        <allow users="*" />
    </authorization>

    <authentication mode="Forms">
        <forms timeout="500000" loginUrl="Login.aspx" />
    </authentication>



    <system.web>
         <httpHandlers>
                <remove verb="*" path="*.asmx" />
                <add verb="*" path="Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd" type="Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"   validate="false" />
                <add verb="*" path="*.asmx" validate="false" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add verb="*" path="*_AppService.axd" validate="false" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
                <add verb="GET,HEAD" path="ScriptResource.axd" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" validate="false" />
            </httpHandlers>
            <httpModules>
                <add name="ScriptModule" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptModule, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
            </httpModules>
            <webServices>
                <protocols>
                    <add name="HttpGet" />
                    <add name="HttpPost" />
                </protocols>
            </webServices>
        </system.web>