Keep SSRS (SSRS2016) report manager awake

When running a report for the first time in report manager it takes a while to run, after this initial run reports run fine. 

There are a number of ways to keep reporting services awake so that when you run a report it runs straight away and is not slow to load.

I have found a number of scripts on the web but I could not get them to work, so I created my own and tweaked it and it works! :-) 

The idea is to run a report using PowerShell with a URL and then create a job which will run the job before your users start running reports.


The PowerShell script below runs a report

$IE=new-object -com internetexplorer.application
$IE.navigate2("ENTERREPORTURLLINKHERE")
$IE.visible=$true


Test the script in PowerShell on your server and then save the file.

Then create a SQL Agent job which you then schedule to run every day at say 6am.

This works on SSRS 2016 I have not tested on previous versions but it should work in principle