all depends on the level you are required to support SSRS

there are lots of good topics by doing a simple google search on SSRS Administration, key things I would say...

the symetric key is an issue as thats one of the things which handles the authentication.

I would suggest completly removing SSRS rebooting and reinstalling and configuring

you could create a policy against the data file facet for the avilable space properties and have it alert you via email

you will need db mail setting up and SQL...

have you removed the username from the error message or is the error saying its a blank user?

Msg 18456, level 14, State 1, Line 1

Login Failed for user ''

or

Msg 18456,...

you dont want to be detaching/attaching backup/restoring system databases across different versions, if you where moving 2005 to 2005 you would be ok, but as this is 2005 to 2008...

when you attached the AW database what name did you give it? check the name of the db in SQL matches the name of the db the data source...

it seems like you are on the right track, the only way would be to test it, but i dont have a logshipping environment

Ssrs has removed its dependency on iis in 2008 so you won't see anything in iis manager.

I'm at a bit of a stump now, you've got access and the report...

are you a local admin on the server? this looks permissions related and if it's a new installation only local admins will have login rights

if you go to reports do you see the SSRS home page? have you uploaded any objects to SSRS yet?

under the reply text box is a button which says edit attachments, and a list of file extensions which can be uploaded

if you save them as jpeg files, you can attach them direct in the forum

i had the same issue, had to take it out of the begin end due to it expecting external

so i ended up doing this

IF EXISTS (SELECT name FROM sys.schemas WHERE...

you could build a string up which concatinates an insert script together, the below code will give you a starting point, just need to put in the where clause to...

this link will help you, in the examples section it details on renaming a column