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My main home domain is running from the original instance of the OS/domain done back in 2003, and has even survived a major machine upgrade along with a hard-drive failure in SYSVOL. My work machine is the same Win2000 Pro instance I originally installed in 2000. Microsoft has done a remarkable job with their software robustness, as I have been 6 years since the point of no return - and have even survived major hardware upgrades.

Reports in Visual Studio 2005 can now be bound to various datasources, independent of the data providers that load them; this means you don't need SQL Server Reporting Services installed at all - at design-time or at run-time/deployment. Here's how.