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Waking up Reporting Services with scripting

I have recently deployed a new reporting solution using SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. I wanted to look into a solution to ensure that the first user, after reporting services had spun down its’ application pools, doesn't have to wait for them to be re-initiated. This so that I could avoid complaints about reporting services performance. I was looking for a simple solution to either stop reporting services clearing down the application pools or to find a way of speeding up the first request. I decided on an approach to speed up the first request made by a user. This was because I didn't want to make application settings changes in case other problems occurred. After searching for a method into speeding up reporting services application pools start-up I came across a useful PowerShell script. The script, which was for PowerShell V2, made use of the .Net class System.Net.WebRequest to make a request to the report manager. I made a copy of this script and applied some