Reporting Services - “The feature: "Scale-out deployment" is not supported in this edition of Reporting Services.” (again)
During an Azure DevOps Server (TFS) migration, one of the steps I have to execute is the backup and restore of the Reporting Services databases. After reconfiguring the Reporting Services on the new server, I always have to fix the following error message:
The feature: “Scale-out deployment” is not supported in this edition of Reporting Services. (rsOperationNotSupported)
This is caused by a combination of 2 elements:
- By restoring the database on a new server, the new server is added to the list of reporting services instances which makes Reporting Services think this is a scaled out deployment
- Most organisations are using a SQL Server Standard Edition for Azure DevOps Server. This edition does not support ‘Scale-Out' deployments’.
My solution to fix this problem was always the same:
https://bartwullems.blogspot.com/2013/02/sql-server-reporting-services-feature.html
Unfortunately during my last upgrade I noticed that the Scale-Out Deployment tab wasn’t even shown in the Reporting Services Configuration Manager and when I tried to use the RSKeyMgmt tool to list the keys, it failed with the same message.
Luckily we can still fix this in another way:
The list of Report Servers is stored in the Keys table of the reporting database. Just delete the old server from the table and you should be good to go…