Microsoft enhancing business intelligence in SQL Server

InfoWorld: Microsoft enhancing business intelligence in SQL Server: "Available free to SQL Server 2000 customers, Reporting Services SP1 enables exporting of reports to Excel 97 and 2000, which are older versions of the spreadsheet. The service pack also adds improvements in PDF rendering for pagination and matrix performance. Other highlights are greater control over series and data point styles in charts and enabling single sign-on authentication to systems not based on Windows authentication technology. "

It seems I hear from someone new every week that Reporting Services lives up to the hype. Download the service pack here.

For a jump start to loading and using Reporting Servers, see if there is a LoadFest scheduled near you. They are BYOS (bring your own server) events which will cover everything from installing to creating reports.