Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have a developer who would like to
interact with the web services on the SSRS server. The way I
understand it is that they would like to populate a list of
reports in a folder so that the user can select which one they'd
like to view.  My initial thought is that this gets around any
type of security that is setup on the folders themselves.  Does
anyone have any experience with this and could maybe think of
something I am not considering?  share|improve this question add
comment  1 Answer  up vote 0 down vote accepted  When you
connect to the SSRS webservice you have to authenticate with a
valid SSRS user.  If you connect to the webservice as the same
user that is viewing the list of reports you will only see the
reports that user has access to.  You can also use the
ReportingService2005.GetPolicies to get the permissions of a
report server item.  share|improve this answer Yea, we've been
back and forth on it. The program is going to have to handle
what reports they can see. It's a