55204-A: Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2014 Level 1 — Lesson 4: Deployment, Export, Validation, and Support

Learning Objectives

• Preview, inspect, deploy, secure, and manage reports
• Export to common formats and review rendering differences
• Troubleshoot queries, parameters, layout, permissions, and deployment

Detailed Topics

• Preview: Preview, inspect, deploy, secure, and manage reports
• Export to common formats and review rendering differences: Export to common formats and review rendering differences
• Troubleshoot queries: Troubleshoot queries, parameters, layout, permissions, and deployment

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Deploy and validate a report package with a troubleshooting checklist.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Deployment, Export, Validation, and Support in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.