Dave Turpin needed to perform an upgrade of a Reporting Services installation:
So let me share with you my biggest take away from this project: EVERYTHING ABOUT USER CREATED REPORTS IS STORED IN THE SQL Server Reporting databases. So if you are reading this post you probably are about to move an instance of SSRS, and may be concerned about the many, many reports involved.
Based on my one experience with this, there is need to move individual reports. If you follow the process carefully, all of the existing reports will be re-created on the new machine. It’s not quite magic, but it sure feels like it when everything shows up on the new system.
Read on for the solution Dave came up with.