How can I update a SSRS report without applying a deployable package to production?

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Posted on by Mario C

Hello community,

I need to update an SSRS report in a production environment without deploying a full deployable package. My repository contains multiple changes that are currently applied in test environments like UAT/FUT, but these changes are not ready for production yet. I only want to apply the specific SSRS report change to production without including the other changes in the repository.

Is there a way to update the report directly in production ? What is the best practice for handling such scenarios?

Thanks in advance!

Mario C.

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How can I update a SSRS report without applying a deployable package to production?

You can't deploy your changes without deploying them, but your problem is different anyway. You have a problem with your branching and deployment strategy.

You seem to believe that you deploy code from environments, but it isn't the case. T2+ environments don't even contain code that you could create a deployable package from. A deployable package should be created from a known version in source control, not from something that happen to be in an environment. And in source control, you have branches for this purpose.

What you have in production may be code stored in a production branch, or (for instance) an older version of a main branch. Depending on your situation, you can cherry-pick individual changes for merge to the production branch, create a new branch from an older version or so. Then you'll use a pipeline to create a deployable package from that branch, you'll apply it to a test environment, test it and then deploy your changes to production. If you develop changes in other branch then where you usually develop, you'll also need to merge the changes there.