This might help: http://www.wiseowl.co.uk/blog/s257/ssrs-rows-per-page-pt3.htm

interesting, thanks Sue!

thanks for the reply

reporting services back-end and reporting services front-end are on the same server. reporting services sql server is configured for 10GB memory max (but it hasn't...

Yup, I did. I always like to bounce the idea off of some experienced DBAs here as well just to make sure my bases are covered.

Thanks!

I was able to restore the 2008 RS database onto the 2016 server. After dealing with the initial issues getting the RS back up (covered above) it's working fine.

The workaround listed in the web link posted above works (but for some reason underscores were stripped out, i had to add them to get the script to work).

hmm...

http://exceptionin.com/q/ssrs-2016-logging-same-message-250-times-per-second

Perhaps related to problems trying to create SQL Agent jobs? In the log just before it starts mass logging that error, I see this:

schedule!WindowsService_0!1a3c!01/23/2017-11:17:43:: i INFO: Schedule (126052f1-af5e-4ce3-bacf-000bd07b68f1)...

Since the new server is not yet in production, I tried the backup/restore encryption key / reportserver / reportserverTempDB from the old 2008 server onto the new 2016 server. It...