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Error Bad data

Derek Howard
9/8/2004 4:01:04 PM

sql server reporting services:

I have been working fine with no problems and just finished my first report
and deployed it with no errors. The next day I get the message below whenever
I try to run the report thru the report server or try to delploy from inside
VS.net. I have no encrypted data and only one user on this pc. Please help!
The report server cannot decrypt the symmetric key used to access sensitive
or encrypted data in a report server database. You must either restore a

Error Bad data

Ravi
9/9/2004 6:04:29 AM

Just try this
rsactivate -r -c <config file>

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Re: Error Bad data

Daniel Reib [MSFT]
9/9/2004 10:14:03 AM

Did a password that RS uses change? Did you change a user that RS runs as?
All of these can cause this error. To fix it you will need to run
rskeymgmt.exe. If you backed up your symmetric key you can just import it.
If not, run it with -d to delete the encrypted content.

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-Daniel
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