Problems with restoring and deleting old keys- reporting services 2005

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Problems with restoring and deleting old keys- reporting services 2005

Hi all,Hope some could help with this problem:
I have a reporting services 2005 installed and running.I am building a 
installer to move my reports to another computer.
I read the article of how to do it - but it steel have one problem.
when i am running the "Rskeymgmt –l" command and get the list of the source and destination computers with their keys.i am deleting the destination key using the command "Rskeymgmt –r + GUID"
(I am doing so and not using the "d" paramter because if i do that i loose my connection strings data wich is a encrypted content).

Sometimes it deleted and sometimes it is not.Its wiered - its like the 
service refreshed itself and if i run again  Rskeymgmt -l , i can steel see the one i just deleted.
I guess the initialization process created a new key while i am trying to restore the source key.

Any suggestions



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Problems with restoring and deleting old keys- reporting services 2005

  • daviangel

    I don't quite understand "You cant delete the key without the net service is ruunig." What is the "net service" What did you run and what was the error

  • vai23

    First of all I am not sure why you want to mess with the key. The -r option is to remove a key from a scale-out deployment. I am assume you are moving reports between 2 independent report servers. In that case you just need to export your reports from the source server and upload them to your destination server.

  • nightwish

    Hi.what i ment to say is that you cant do any peration like running the rskeymgmt utility without the reporitng service window service is running.

  • John Melville

    Ok, I see. You are moving the RS catalog database. When you are deleting the key of the source server, make sure the RS windows service is stopped.

  • Antonio Galvan

    You cant delete the key without the net service is ruunig.

    I did something else - i deleted the key without the rsmgmt utility - i did it from the report server DB.It solves the problem - but i steel dont uinderstand why there is this problem in the first place.



  • kushals

    Why i want to mess with the key

    Because i have to.When you want to move a reporting services from one computer to another this is one of the stpes you have to do.(you read about it here:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=842425).

    Any way - you didnt answer my question.

    Thanks anyway.



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