Changing Service Account

We need to change the account that the ReportServer service runs under. Is
it as simple as changing the account that the service logs on with, or is it
more involved?It is more involved because the RS symmetric key is encrypted and stored in
the RS database using the user that the RS Windows service is running under.
If you change the Windows service account RS won't be able to decrypt this
key unless you follow the procedure below.
1. Delete the references to the old key: rskeymgmt -r <installation id> (the
installation ID can be found in the rsreportserver.config file
2. Stop IIS and the Report Server windows service
3. Change the account service runs under to a domain account that can log in
to your reporting database.
4. Start IIS and the Report Server windows service
5. Reapply the encryption key: rskeymgmt -a -f <filename from step
1> -p<password from step 1>.
Hope this helps.
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"dachrist" <dachrist@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We need to change the account that the ReportServer service runs under.
Is
> it as simple as changing the account that the service logs on with, or is
it
> more involved?