I now tried basically the same approach as the article. After renaming the “guid” named job to some meaningful name, I also disabled it and had the newly renamed job called by another. The idea was to have a “main” job call all the report refresh jobs as a single unit.

The problem is, the next morning I came in and all the “guid” jobs that were renamed are now back and enabled. Apparently, reporting services recreated them based on the schedule that was setup.

Is there some place within the reporting service database where the job names are referenced that could be adjusted to call the ‘renamed” version?