sms: reporting access denied after applying sp1...

maybe this is old news. maybe i'm just getting around to hearing about it... or maybe we finally did something right? now we're seeing the problem. here's the deal... recently, we decided to move from our current tier administrative approach to a three-tier approach which truly separates user, server, and domain functions so that we can minimize accidental screw ups to some degree. in doing this, our server admin accounts were added to the sms servers. our user accounts were removed. keep some of the base functionality, we left our user accounts in our sms reporting groups. apparently after applying windows server 2003 sp1, there are some changes that need to occur for launching sms web reporting if your account is a member of the sms reporting users group but not the local administrators group. trying to launch results in an error like this:

Server object error 'ASP 0178 : 80070005' Server.CreateObject Access Error /SMSReporting_093/ReportsNav.asp, line 1055 The call to Server.CreateObject failed while checking permissions. Access is denied to this object.

no point in expressing the changes required in dcomcnfg. they're all covered in this article. :)