SSRS 2017: unable to grant domain group rights to reports

Prins, Andre 126 Reputation points
2021-02-26T08:42:45.453+00:00

as part of a System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) installation, we also installed SQL/SSRS 2017. Reporting is working fine - I can grant AD users access to view the reports directly via http://reportserver/reports. only when I try to grant an AD group rights, it fails with the message 'The user or group name 'NAME' is not recognized. I tried granting rights to all 3 types of security groups (Local Domain, Global, Universal) and all 3 types fail. the fact that I can add a DOMAIN\username AD-user means that SSRS can connect to AD, so I am puzzled why groups cannot be added ?!??!? ![72416-image.png][1] [1]: /api/attachments/72416-image.png?platform=QnA

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  1. CyrAz 5,181 Reputation points
    2021-03-02T08:07:27.3+00:00

    The theory is that you can't directly add groups to ssrs permissions once the ssrs instance has been reconfigured by SCOM.
    You need to create a SCOM role, add the AD group to that role and then add the role's guid to ssrs permissions.
    Read more here : https://myitworld.azurewebsites.net/2017/01/09/manage-report-operator-user-role-scom-2016/

    However, there have been reports of ongoing issues with granting access to ssrs for quite a while now : https://myitworld.azurewebsites.net/2017/01/09/manage-report-operator-user-role-scom-2016/

    https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cf56abf4-cd72-48fe-9ceb-05cf05b98e81/ssrs-2017-scom-2019-cannot-browse-folders?forum=operationsmanagerreporting


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