Set Up Your Workstation to Create SQL Server Reporting Services Reports for Dynamics 365 Revisited

Summary

• The process to set up a workstation to create SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports for Dynamics 365 involves a lot of steps and causes some confusion.
• The report authoring tool is Visual Studio, but a full licensed version of Visual Studio is not required.
• The Dynamics 365 Report Authoring Extensions has been recently updated to address TLS 1.2 requirements of Dynamics 365 v9

Revisited

A couple of years ago I wrote a posting on how to set up a workstation to create SSRS reports for Dynamics 365/CRM.  It turned out to be one of my more popular posts.  If you are writing reports for older versions of Dynamics 365/CRM, those instructions are still very relevant.

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Since that post, there have been a couple of updates and also an issue with connecting to Dynamics 365 v9 in regards to TLS 1.2 when using…