Home Forums Reporting Services Reporting Services The report server cannot decrypt the symmetric key that is used to access sensitive or encrypted data in a report server database. RE: The report server cannot decrypt the symmetric key that is used to access sensitive or encrypted data in a report server database.

  • I believe, although not positive, you can reset your encryption key and then you just have to go back in and reset the credentials for your data sources, not recreate the whole data source as the credentials are the only thing that is encrypted.