I have to copy all reports from one SSRS server to another. I plan on doing this by going through each report and downloading the report definition file and then uploading the file to the new server.
I have been given System Administrator and System User site wide roles and I have Browser, Content Manager, My Reports, Publisher and Report Builder roles for the Home folder but I still can’t see the Edit button that will allow me to save the report definition file. The reason is because the reports are owned by other users. I can’t ask all the users to give me permissions to edit their reports because there are too many users and I think a lot of them will never get round to doing it.
What can I do to copy all the reports to the new server if I am not the owner of most of them?
What I ended up doing is running Internet Explorer as the server administrator user. You do this by holding shift and right-clicking on the Internet Explorer icon on your start menu and then choosing “Run as different user”. You then enter the login details for the domain administrator user account and enter the address of the report server. Being the server adminstrator user for the domain allowed me to be the Content Manager user for all of the reports.