SQL Server Reporting Services 2017: Multiple Instances

SQL Server Reporting Services are no longer part of the installation media since SQL Server 2017. They are delivered as a separate Installer.

The new Installation Wizard gives no option to install multiple (named) instances of SSRS 2017 on the same machine.

Is that still possible?

From my research, this is currently not implemented in SSRS 2017. I was not able to find any information in an official Deprecated Features document.

• Comment from user 'Matt'

• Comment from user 'Sai_Kumar'

• Twitter-Post from Christopher Finlan, Senior Program Manager, Power BI Report Server & SQL Server Reporting Services at Microsoft.

I found two votes to bring this functionality back to the product:

• Support Power BI Report Server multiple instances on a single server

• Restore multiple instance support for Reporting services in SQL 2017

Update (May 2019): The feature will not be reimplemented


AdminChris Finlan (Program Manager, Microsoft Power BI) replied:


Hi all, We aren’t planning to re-implement multi-instance support as
we had prior to SSRS 2017. We recommend using virtualization as an
alternative, and we’re also looking at possibly adding container
support in the future.

StackExchange Database Administrators Q#213563, answer score: 4