Hi,
After installing SQL Reporting Services 2005 and starting the Reporting
Services Configuration tool the reporting server is reported as
uninitialized. The cause seems to be the creation of the symmetric key.
Below I attach the relevant part from the log file:
ReportingServicesService!crypto!8!1/4/2006-11:20:55:: i INFO: Exporting
public key
ReportingServicesService!crypto!8!1/4/2006-11:20:55:: i INFO: NT
Service self activating
ReportingServicesService!library!8!1/4/2006-11:20:56:: Exception caught
while starting service. Error:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80090008): Invalid
algorithm specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80090008) at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32
errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at
RSManagedCrypto.RSCrypto.CreateSymmetricKey() at
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ConnectionManager.GetEncryptionKey()
at
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ConnectionManager.ConnectStorage()
at
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Library.ServiceController.ServiceStartThread()
The user under which account the report server runs is administrator
both on the machine and on the domain, so no security problems should
occur.
Any ideas

Error generating symmetric key
Mokles
What puzzles me, however, is that I saw nowhere a requirement to install Reporting Services only on a server OS.
msdevpro
VS NET 2005 is also installed on the machine and I am able to design the reports from within it.
Roman G.
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