Printing is not available. Verify that ActiveX is enabled

What worked for me was in 3 client-side steps : Run Internet Explorer as admin. In Internet Explorer, go in Compatibility View Settings and add the SSRS website. Attempt to print the report. A popup asking to activate something from Microsoft SQL Services (I didn’t get the exact name) should appear. Accept it (only works … Read more

Why use X-UA-Compatible IE=Edge anymore?

As @David’s answer points out, unless you’re hosting a site in the “Local Intranet” zone, there is very little reason to include <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=edge”> in your webpages, and (according to Microsoft’s best practice recommendations) absolutely no reason to include it in the HTML. (You should place it in your server config or site headers — not in … Read more

Dependency Walker reports IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL missing?

ieshims.dll is an artefact of Vista/7 where a shim DLL is used to proxy certain calls (such as CreateProcess) to handle protected mode IE, which doesn’t exist on XP, so it is unnecessary. wer.dll is related to Windows Error Reporting and again is probably unused on Windows XP which has a slightly different error reporting system than Vista and … Read more