SQL Server Reporting Services Error : Server is not configured for RPC

When I ran a SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services report on a server I got the following Reporting Services error message:

Reporting Services Error

An error has occured during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)

Query execution failed for data set '...'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand)

Server '...' is not configured for RPC.

I later noticed that the server which is causing this error is defined as a linked server on the SQL Server that the Reporting Services is installed on.

When I checked the Linked Server properties of the related SQL Server, I see that the RPC is disabled. After I have enabled the RPC option the error that the server is not configured for RPC has dissappeared.

An interesting thing about the linked servers when compared between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 is that the default linked server properties differ in options tab. For example RPC and RPC Out are both enabled in SQL Server 2000 but these features are now disabled by default for SQL Server 2005.

You see below a linked server options tag defined in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000

And below is a linked server options tab that is defined in MS SQL Server 2005.

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