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Attachment encryption script (bulkEncryption in Docs) does not work as a Scheduled Job - Support and Troubleshooting
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KB0685273

Attachment encryption script (bulkEncryption in Docs) does not work as a Scheduled Job


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Issue

Symptoms


When attempting to run the script to encrypt unencrypted attachments mentioned here as a Scheduled Job, it fails to encrypt the attachments even though the Run As is set to a user who has that encryption context. 

Release


ALL

Cause 


The "Run as" for scheduled jobs is the equivalent of impersonating a user. When we impersonate a user we do not allow inheritance of the encryption context keys as this poses a security issue. 
 
We currently do not support assigning encryption contexts/roles to a background / non-interactive thread. 
 

 

 


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