Creating UDM Report Builder Models in SSRS-MOSS Integration Mode

I've seen this question come up on many a proof...and that is how do you generate Report Models off an Analysis Services UDM (OLAP cube) once you've put SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Integration Mode. Well, when not in MOSS integration mode, it was rather simple...just deploy the data source to Analysis Services and then either use Report Manager or SQL Server Management Studio to generate the "model" off the data source. So now you’re staring at the MOSS UI, but don't see a way of generating the UDM based model...well, you’re probably missing some MOSS configuration to enable report model generation. The configuration you need is to enable multiple content types for the library your working with (for example the data connections library for the "Reports" subsite in MOSS), and then add report server types to that library. I normally will go ahead and add the "Report Builder Report", "Report Model" and "Report Data Source" content types to the library. For full details on how to configure these content types in MOSS, refer to this BOL section from SQL Server 2005.

Once you've added these content types to the library...actually creating the Report Model from the UDM is rather easy, and it’s just two steps: 1) Create the Report Data Source (if not already deployed to the MOSS site), and 2) Create the Report Model. With the new content types added to your MOSS library, both of these steps are as easy as clicking on the "New" item from the MOSS menu, and picking the correct item (either data source or model). Obviously you'll want to generate the UDM model based from the UDM data source you created in step 1. For full instructions on creating the Report Model from within MOSS, review this BOL section from SQL Server 2005.