So, of course what happens?
No one came by needing anything...

Ever have one of those days where you know that as soon as you go put your lunch in the microwave, someone's going to call your desk or walk over...

Vic,
Presuming your server is using Windows Authentication and your front end (which you indicated is MS Access) is being run as the logged in user on the workstation, SQL...

Has anyone had any issues enabling the two registry keys to enable the Meltdown / Spectre fixes for the OS?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072698/windows-server-guidance-to-protect-against-the-speculative-execution
I enabled these yesterday on...

I find it amusing that someone responded to a topic (that I'd replied to and hopefully answered the OPs question) with a link to a topic on basically the same...

You don't need to specify a decryption key to back up the databases, but you also can't just disable encryption either.
What you need to do to backup a TDE-protected...

I'm in a similar boat to you, in that I have no control over the setup / backup of my databases except by contacting the person who admins our "enterprise"...