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When running Publish-AXReport we see the below error:

Publish-AXReport : Name cannot begin with the ' ' character, hexadecimal value 0x20. Line 46, position 8.

At line:1 char:17

+ Publish-AXReport <<<< -ReportName "*" -RestartReportServer

+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [Publish-AXReport], XmlException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Name cannot begin with the ' ' character, hexadecimal value 0x20. Line 46, position 8.,Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.Management.Reports.PublishReportCommand

The error only occurs on those reports which have a related assembly. The same error (only with Publish-AXAssembly instead of (only with Publish-AXReport) can be produced with this more targeted statement:

Publish-AXAssembly -id 'SSRSNLBAOS2' -vsprojectname 'assetAcquisitionDocumentPL.BusinessLogic' -verbose

(also logged here: http://serverfault.com/questions/740406/publish-axreport-gives-error-name-cannot-begin-with-the-character)

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Brandon Wiese 17,788 on at

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Have you considered that maybe there's a leading space in something other than the report name? Perhaps in the server name, instance name, or one of the URLs in the SSRS Report Servers configuration, or maybe in the AOS Server Configuration manager, registry, or report server .ini file?

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Good shout - I thought about that and checked all the settings I could think of; sadly didn't note down where I'd looked; I'll recheck soon and will enumerate what I've looked at here so people can say if I've missed something.

FYI: I also found a very similar issues here:

- forum.stimulsoft.com/viewtopic.php;t=3661

- community.dynamics.com/.../168434

Both of which suggest there's likely a value in an XML file somewhere which is causing this issue (i.e. as the error looks very similar to those XML parser errors)... though whether it's a configuration file or something system generated I can't guess.

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I tried to pad leading spaces into everything I could think of to see if I could replicate your issue, but I was not able to.

I would probably start with Process monitor at Sysinternals.com. Start it right before your publish-axreport and stop it immediately after the error. You will still have a mountain of events to sort through, but if you start from the point of error and go backwards, you might be able to find where the leading space is at and/or where it is pulling it from. It's a long shot, but it has worked in the past where nothing else did.

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Great shout; thank-you.

Running this showed that there were lots of tasks related to `D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.AX2012_ENVIRON1\Reporting Services\ReportServer\rssrvpolicy.config`.

Converting the content to XML in PowerShell gave the same error. ([xml][string](get-content 'd:\...\rssrvpolicy.config').

Looking through the file I found a CodeGroup element formatted as: `< CodeGroup class="UnionCodeGroup" ...` (i.e. with a space in the opening tag before the element name).

Correcting the XML and rerunning the Publish command worked successfully!

You've made my weekend! Thank-you.

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Wow, that's excellent! Glad I could help.

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