Recovering Stock CRM 4.0 Reports

I have a habit of wanting to remove the canned reports from CRM after an installation if it is determined that they are not needed for a particular environment. I find that some users don't want to be distracted by reports they'll never run, so this is something you can do to help keep the report area clean. But what happens if we end up using some functionality in CRM that we didn't before that leads us to want one of the standard reports back? Or what if you've modified one of the standard reports and wish to revert back to the original?

Dude, Where's My Report?

You can locate the canned reports by browsing to the \Server\reports\mscrm folder of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 cd. This will have all of the standard reports that are installed with version 4.0.

Upload the Report

To upload the report to CRM:

1. Navigate to the Reports area.
2. Click on New.
1. For Report Type, select "Existing File" and specify the location of the .rdl file.
2. Specify the report name (this will default to the name of the report file).
3. You can specify the optional Categorization attributes:
    
4. On the Administration tab, you can set some additional settings for the report, which are kinda self-explanatory:
   
3. Click Save.