I was able to resolve my Reporting service error message:

Brief Review:

Url: http://localhost

IIS web site up and running

Url: http://localhost/ReportingServer

Report Server up and running

Url: http://localhost/Reports

Server not...

Developers have come up with a .net algorithm that puts out

a varchar(150) string.

My approach is to add a columns:

encryptedSSN

encryptedpassword

populate columns

use sp_addMergecolumn to article

re-initialize