Last week I upgraded one of my test servers from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2. The upgrade went successfully except for one service. The SQL Server Reporting Services. I wanted to pull a report and the app I was using reported the service wasn’t started.
I clicked start only to get the famous error that some services stop and start if they have nothing to do. Okay, time to check the logs. Here was the error reported:
Service cannot be started. System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly ‘ReportingServicesNativeServer, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91’ or one of its dependencies. The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B1)
File name: ‘ReportingServicesNativeServer, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91’ —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800736B1): The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B1)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ServiceAppDomainController..ctor()
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ReportService.OnStart(String[] args)
at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedM…
Quite a long error. I simply opened up Programs and Features and ran a repair on SQL. After that the service started without any issues.
Hope it helps