SQL Server Jobs with SSIS packages - Failed to decrypt protected XML node “DTS:Password” with error 0x8009000B

Question

i have a SQL server job that runs a SSIS package. This job has 9 steps and in each step it extracts data from a different database. the connections strings are defined as param

Answer 1

Little late to the game but i found a way to fix this for me that i had not seen anywhere else. Select your connection from Connection Managers. On the right you should see properties. Check to see if there are any expressions there if not add one. In your package explorer add a variable called connection to sql or whatever. Set the variable as a string and set the value as your connection string and include the User Id and password. Back to the connection manager properties and expression. From the drop down select ConnectionString and set the second box as the name of your variable. It should look like this

I could not for the life of me find another solution but this worked!