Hello, I know there are a ton of threads on the internet and these forums that address this topic. My problem is that I am using 2008 and 90% of the "answers" in the threads I have read say to disable annoymus access in IIS. however I understand that as of 2008 IIS is no longer a factor. Here are the things that I have tried: Run IE as Administrator I have no problem access and querying the ReportServices SQL 2008 database Using port 80 My Enviroment: Dell Studio XPS Windows Vista MSSQL Server 2008 URL I have read, but they did not help. (or I did not understand enough to follow correctly) http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/fffa4d0d-6cc9-4385-8a30-8a1b8243f619 http://dobrzanski.net/2008/03/28/reporting-services-blank-report-manager-screen/ Here are some screen shots if they are helpfull: < /br>