Recently, after helping to upgrade a customer from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, we noticed some oddities around the Reporting Services content types. The RS content types are deployed into a farm when the RS add-in is installed. The observed problem was that the names of the content types, and the content type group was all messed up.
The names displayed were the internal names that are used to support multilingual installations. What I believe caused this problem was the the content database had been upgraded to 2010 prior to the add in being installed on the farm, so the English names could not be resolved.
All existing items using the types continued to work, and reports could still be deployed using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). However some UI dependent functions, like Report Builder could not be used without the proper names. Luckily, the fix is relatively straightforward. All that we need to do is to set the correct names manually. To get the correct farm, all that is necessary is to inspect an unaffected farm to see the section below.
In order to fix this, you need to first navigate to the root of your site collection, and then select Site Actions – Site Settings, and then click on Site content types in the Galleries section.
At this point, you should see the affected section, it will be right at the top. We need to fix the content types one at a time, so click on one of the affected content types. The Content type editor window will appear. From that Window, simply select Name, description, and group.
You will then be able to edit the values for Name, Description, and Group.
For the first one that you edit, you’ll need to select the New Group option, and enter the correct name of the group, as indicated above. For the other two content types, you’ll be able to select the correct group from the existing group list.
Once you’ve edited all three content types, that’s it! You’re done.
Well, sort of…
Unfortunately the name change will only affect new libraries , or newly configured libraries. For libraries that already have these content types attached to them, you’ll need to repeat the process for each library that has been affected. I imagine that it’s quite possible to write a PowerShell script that will do this for all libraries, but so far, the remediation effort hasn’t warranted it.