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

if you have to number of sales in the same row as the geo data in the data set, then at the point layer properties, you can specify a label...

try this

is this a named instance of SQL?

what errors do you get when you do try and go to the reports url?

can you post the screen shots of the report manager...

is that authentication error using windows accounts or sql accounts?

can you post screen shots of the linked server config?