Overview When upgrading a SQL Server installation to SQL2017, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is now a stand-alone installation. This short article lists the main issues that we encountered, as best as I can recall.
Installation
Background For some investigative work that I had to do, I required an Availability Group (AG) that I could destroy and rebuild without impacting anybody else. Hyper-V was an obvious solution and this article describes the steps required.
Background SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is now a separate installation, so it can be updated without any impact on the SQL Server engine. Updating the newer versions is as easy as you would expect but removing an older SSMS that was included as part of SQL Server requires a little bit of concentration.
Background Whilst installing SQL Server 2012 onto a new Windows 10 laptop, the SQL 2012 installation returned an error 0x800F081F.
Notes on SQL 