Service Unavailable: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. – Your Application + SSRS + Reports folder = obscure mess

Introduction Wow… another error message that tells you NOTHING! This error message reads: Service Unavailable: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. I need to start off by saying that 503 ...

HTTP Error 503. The Service is unavailable.

This error reads: Service Unavailable – HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. I’d like to open up by saying what we are all thinking when this happens, “YEAH NO SHIT!” Ok...

The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version. The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found.

Screenshot of Error in the Report Viewer This error reads: The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version. The...

HTTP Error 404.2 – Not Found, Error Code 0x800704ec

HTTP Error 404.2 – Not Found The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the ISAPI and CGI Restriction list setting on the Web Server. Error Code 0x800704ec In order to fix this prob...

HTTP 404.17 – Not Found, Error Code: 0x80070032

HTTP Error 404.17 – Not Found The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler. Error Code: 0x80070032 This especially obnoxious error occurs when you are...

HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid. Error Code: 0x8007000d

This is probably one of the more annoying errors I have ever encountered with IIS7. All the information I was finding for it online was very vague and my symptoms were very different from everyone els...