Microsoft KB Archive/887015

= Members of the SMS Reporting Users group cannot view SMS reports in Systems Management Server 2003 =

Article ID: 887015

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003

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SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003, you add a user to the SMS Reporting Users group. When the user tries to access SMS reports, the user receives an error message that is similar to the following:

Report  is unavailable. Either you do not have permissions to view the report or the report does not exist.



CAUSE
The SMS Reporting Users domain local group has not been assigned class security rights to the Report object.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, assign read security rights to the Report object for the SMS Reporting Users group. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Systems Management Server, and then click SMS Administrator Console.
 * 2) Expand Site Database (  -  ), right-click Security Rights, point to New, and then click Class Security Right.
 * 3) In the User Name box, type  \SMS Reporting Users.
 * 4) In the Class box, click Report.
 * 5) In Permissions, click to select Read, and then click OK.



MORE INFORMATION
The Systems Management Server 2003 Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide, and Scenarios and Procedures for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: Security state that SMS reports do not use SMS object security unless the administrator views the report from the SMS Administrator console. However, this statement is incorrect. SMS reports always use SMS object security.

Note The steps that are described in the &quot;Resolution&quot; section will let members of the SMS Reporting Users group read all SMS reports. You can restrict the reports that a user or a group can read by assigning additional security rights for instances of the class object.

For additional information about how to assign class rights and instance rights, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

199869 Assigning class and instance security rights with the SMS User Wizard

