In SSMS we are attempting to bulk insert from a csv file into a table that has a column encrypted using SQL Server 2016's Always Encrypted feature.

This is the command we're using:

INSERT INTO membersE SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET( BULK 'c:\members.csv', FORMATFILE = 'c:\membersEFormat.xml', FIRSTROW = 2 ) m

This returns the typical error you get when attempting to insert into an encrypted column:

Msg 206, Level 16, State 2, Line 6 Operand type clash: varbinary is incompatible with varchar(50) encrypted with (encryption_type = 'DETERMINISTIC', encryption_algorithm_name = 'AEAD_AES_256_CBC_HMAC_SHA_256', column_encryption_key_name = 'CEK_Auto1', column_encryption_key_database_name = 'DATABASE') collation_name = 'Latin1_General_BIN2'

We understand that you can't insert into an encrypted column via SSMS and that you need to use a .NET 4.6.1+ client, but we'd like to know if bulk insert operations are not possible as well?