The certificate is separate from the DEK even though they work together. You create the certificate first using master database and needs to be backed up. Then for...

I'm in the process of encrypting our databases and I have been reading up on it a lot the past two weeks. I also didn't consider DEK to be...

I had to set up the Sql Service acct with my domain ID and my copy database wizard worked like a charm. Thanks for your help.

Roy,

If I understand your question correctly, it's running as LocalSystem account on my destination server. Not sure how to find out on my sql 2000