So when you reinstalled you used rsconfig.exe to point to the old DB? If so
then RS thinks that you are in a web farm right now and is waiting for the
other machine to activate you. You only have one machine so obviously it
will never get activated.

Did you make a backup of your symmetrical key before you uninstalled RS? If
so and you are using RS Enterprise edition then you can just use rskeymgmt
to apply the backed up key. If not then there are some things we can do.

If the above doesn't apply to you then you can try these:

If your RS web service is running as the same user as the previous
installation as is the web service (running in the same app pool) then you
can grab the old instance ID from the keys table in the ReportServer DB.
Place this in the RSReportServer.config file under InstallationID.

If everything is not the same then use the installationID from the keys
table to pass in to rskeymgmt to extract the old instance. Once you do this
your server should activate itself, however you will not be able to access
any encrypted data. To get around this you will need to use rskeymgmt to
delete all encrypted data. After you do this you will need to reenter all
the credentials that you had stored.

Hope that helps.

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-Daniel
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