title: Reporting services 2012 Report Manager menu url not using HTTPS
body: <p>I have recently set up a new instance of SQL Server Reporting Services. I have it running and am in the testing phase of the deploy. I have set it up to use SSL and basic Authentication. This all works. The report writer has been able to deploy reports and start testing. In this testing we discovered that the menu on the left of the report manager in the data sources or reports management window will not use https. So let me explain it more. </p>
  
  <p>If you browse to a report or data source in Report Manager then highlight and click on the down arrow and choose "Manage" you will get a page with the report's or data sources' properties. It will also have a menu on the left with items like "Subscriptions", "Dependent items", and "Security". If I click on one of these items I get a 404 page error. I can then go to the url and simply put a 's' in the http so it read https and it will work. </p>
  
  <p>Due to security requirements I have had to block all port 80 traffic, if I open port 80 it will work. It only works as http with port 80 open. The menu url never defaults to htts.</p>
  
  <p>I have set the root url to have an https at the front. This made no change. </p>
  
  <p>I tried setting the ReportServerUrl in the <code>c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config</code> file. I set it to include the https at the front as such <code>https://DNSentry.com/reports</code>. Yes I changed the url so the Reports is the Report Manager. This broke the entire Report Manager. It would give me an error of:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your
    connection information and that the report server is a compatible
    version.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have also tried to force report portal to use https by setting the <code>secureconnectionlevel</code> in <code>\c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config</code> to 2, then to 1 and it gave me an error both times.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on
    a send.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>If anyone knows how to force Reporting services to use https for all urls or if I am doing something wrong please let me know. </p>