Currently "Report item images where the image source is a link to an external image is not supported". SQL Azure Reporting is configured for RDLSandboxing which prevents use of internal code or assembly DLLs for dynamic images such as bar codes. External images accessed via URL are a reasonable alternative that's currently blocked.

Business users should be able to use Report builder to author and publish reports to report server

Reports must support custom code, to format strings, etc...

Need BI dev system for V2010 B2 for SQL Azure.

Much of the data I want to report on is in Windows Azure tables storage. I now that you can expose this via a webservice, but how can this be done securely? It would be very useful if there was an out of the box data provider for this.

I understand that it may take time - you might be focusing on getting powerview for multidimensional mode first. But it would be great, if someday we could deploy powerview reports on SQL Azure reporting services.

most 3rd party control developers have retooled their reporting/charting controls to be driven by SSRS, which sql azure does not support. Not being able to use the reporting control that you use in a regular microsoft silverlight or wpf app makes it hard to migrate the app to Azure.

Currently SQL Azure Reporting Service enables to connect SQL Azure database.
But when this service extends to connect Azure Table Service, on premise databases, XML and CSV file, it will be more useful for reporting on cloud.

Custom assemblies in SSRS 2008 are a great way to re-use code in different reports. They are also unit testable.

Right now there seems to be no way to achieve this in SQL Azure Reporting, so it looks like we'll have to copy-and-paste a lot of re-occurring visual basic functions from one report to the other. This makes building the reports more a more tedious and error-prone process, not to mention the lack of unit testing for custom functions.

This may be coming in later releases but I'd ideally want a user-friendly portal so users can just connect and see their reports - just like Report Manager

Allow custom fonts to be loaded on a Azure Reporting server.

If a person could schedule the times SSRS instance can be up and running it would assist in reducing the cost of running reporting services reports. Only available for 8 hours a day and not on weekend would drastically reduce costs. For a small business, the cost of SSRS is not reasonable, especially since you don't get enterprise functionality.

According to MSDN documenation ”How to: Use ReportViewer in a Web Site Hosted in Windows Azure ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg430128.aspx )” this is not supported. It states “Note: ReportViewer configured in local processing mode is not supported in Windows Azure .”

Support for this would be very good to reduce costs of using reporting for solutions that only use them sporadically

This would simplify the management of multiple Report servers. The name must not necessary bet the same as the Report Server URL.