Management Reporter 2012 fails when generating reports when FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) is enabled in the local security policy

When FIPS is enabled, generating a report in MR gives you the following error:

System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.

at System.Security.Cryptography.SHA512Managed..ctor()

at Microsoft.Dynamics.Performance.Reporting.Repository.RepositoryDataContext.PutFile(String fileName, Byte[] fileData)

at Microsoft.Dynamics.Performance.Reporting.Repository.Service.RepositoryService.HandleRepositoryFailures[T](Func`1 func)

at Microsoft.Dynamics.Performance.Reporting.Common.Service.ServiceBase.BaseExecute[TResult](Func`1 executor)

Component: Microsoft.Dynamics.Performance.Reporting.Repository.Service.RepositoryService

MR does not support FIPS out of the box. We have a potential work-around available where you can update the MRServiceHost.exe.config and add the highlighted lines at the location shown below. The file is located on the MR server at the following path:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics ERP\Management Reporter\2.1\Server\Services\MRServiceHost.exe.config

The section may look a little different depending on your MR version. I recommend searching for MapTaskEventLogEnabled. Then, add the lines after </appSettings> and before <connectionStrings configSource="MRServiceHost.connections.config"/> as shown in the section below:

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  <appSettings file="MRServiceHost.settings.config">

    <add key="KeyContainerName" value="MRKeyContainer"/>

    <add key="SchedulerConnectionStringName" value="ManagementReporterConnection"/>

    <add key="ConnectorConnectionStringName" value="ManagementReporterConnection"/>

    <add key="ProviderPath" value="..\Providers"/>

    <add key="AdditionalAssemblyResolutionPaths" value="..\Connector"/>

    <add key="ConnectorTaskPath" value="..\Connector\Microsoft.Dynamics.Integration.Service.dll"/>

    <add key="MaximumConcurrentMapTasks" value="10"/>

    <add key="MapTaskEventLogEnabled" value="False"/>

    <add key="taxonomyDataPath" value="..\TaxonomyData"/>

    <add key="PrefetchSitesForDefaultAdapters" value="false"/>

  </appSettings>

<runtime>

<enforceFIPSPolicy enabled="false" />

</runtime>

 <connectionStrings configSource="MRServiceHost.connections.config"/>

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Depending on the user account control settings, you may need to make a File -> Save As copy and then swap out the file if you can’t do a regular File -> Save.

 After the update is in place, stop both MR services and then restart them to have the change go into effect.