You try to view a report in the Management Reporter Report Viewer and receive the message: “There was a problem communicating with the Server”. Additionally, you notice that this error is occurring when trying to view larger sized reports.
RESOLUTION
Browse to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics ERP\Management Reporter\2.1\Client
Open the Reportviewer.exe using Notepad.
Locate the maxRecievedMessageSize value. The default value is 250000000. Increase this value to 30000000 and save the change.
Note: You will need to make this change on all Management Reporter client workstations.