Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services was Released :)

Hi All, An important and much need information for Sql Server Reporting Services Developers and Others: Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services was Released :) Key functional enhancements SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP1 provides the following functional enhancements: <DIR> <DIR> An improved Excel rendering extension By using the new Excel rendering extension, you can render reports that can be viewed and modified in the earlier versions of Microsoft Excel (For example, you can render a report that can be viewed and modified in the Microsoft Excel 2000 format). A robust PDF rendering extension The performance of the PDF rendering extension is improved with SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP1. More control to users to change the display styles of the Chart control in Report Designer Support for references to external URLs for images and resources in a report The data caching behavior for previewing the report is now supported Support for the new line character in expressions A facility to modify the style of the HTML Viewer toolbar by using a style sheet New parameters for URL access that offer more options to customize the report presentation at run time Report Manager proxy persists authentication cookies so that the authentication cookies can be used by the custom security extensions. Support for hidden report parameters Support for compressing the temporary snapshots and storing the snapshots on the file system Support for disabling the integrated security support for accessing report data sources </DIR></DIR> Problems that have been fixed in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP1 For additional information about the problems that have been fixed in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 842514 <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842514> FIX: The report parameters may not appear correctly when you preview a report in a non-English version of Report Designer 842517 <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842517> FIX: The Reporting Services Login dialog box appears repeatedly when you deploy a report on a remote computer by using Report Designer 842518 <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842518> FIX: An XML version tag is included at the beginning of non-XML files 842534 <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842534> FIX: Bookmark links in a report that is rendered to the Web archive file format (.mhtml) may not work correctly 842536 <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842536> FIX: Hebrew characters in a report appear in reverse order when you export the report to the "Acrobat (PDF) file" format in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services 842537 <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842537> FIX: An image in a report does not appear in the preview of the report if the value property of the image is set to a URL path 842538 <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842538> FIX: Subscriptions that use the e-mail delivery method for distribution may not deliver the report successfully in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Regards Mitesh