Customizing the look-and-feel of the Web Portal

One of the major issues we had with the Report Manager that was available with the previous Reporting Services versions is customizing the appearance of the Report Manager aligning with organization's brand (or theme). Since the portal, whether it is the Report Manager or the Web Portal, is supposed to be opened for business users for viewing reports and performing business user level actions, the custom branding is highly demanding and important. Everyone requested it, everyone insisted on it, and it has been answered by Microsoft with Reporting Services 2016.

With the latest version of Reporting Services, we can customize the portal with our own name, logo, and colors. Let's see how easily it can be done with this recipe.

Getting ready

Generally, theming is done with complex CSSs that are not much easier to implement. We do not need to worry about CSSs because the custom branding of Reporting Services is done by using packages.

The package represents...