I've purchased dbForge Transaction Log.  Our production database uses TDE for encryption.  I cannot open the logs for either the online or offline DBs.  I believe this is normal behavior because the DB is TDE encrypted.

I tried to get around this by creating a full backup, creating another instance of SQL Server, load TDE on this new server, restore the TDE full backups, decrypt the database, and then open it with Transaction Log.  It's able to open the log but it's empty.  If I do a test INSERT on this new temp SQL Server, it shows up in the Transaction Log.

The way that we have it is the databases are in Full Recovery Mode.  I do a full backup once a day with log backup every hour.  Am I not seeing anything in Transaction Log application because of the way that we're backing up the databases?  If so, is there a way to get around this backup method and TDE?

If anyone has any knowledge on how to get this working correctly, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!