As previous poster has mentioned. I would suggest WROX books. I like to use them for 2005 and 2008.

check your configurations in reporting service configuration manager. It may have to do with permission to the folders

I had got this some time back. I had done stuff similar to this. It may work for you too.

http://www.linglom.com/2009/03/28/enable-remote-connection-on-sql-server-2008-express/

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/dba/security_audit_database_level_p1.aspx

There are some scripts in this link which will give you object level permissions. You can modify them for your task to find to filter particular domain account....

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/audit/security_audit_server_level_p1.aspx

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/dba/security_audit_database_level_p1.aspx

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/audit/security_audit_operating_system_p1.aspx

Did to restart the server?

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('productversion'), SERVERPROPERTY ('productlevel'), SERVERPROPERTY ('edition')

Its a permission issue. Try

Grant Create on schema::myschema to username or rolename.

U require sql server installation i guess.

They may or may not be set liek that intentionally. Since its ur first week, observer the log growth for few days and then may be take a call. But...

By audit trail you mean sql profiler trace? You can track all these activities in the sql trace. Use the blank template and put the filters on loginname and the...

Micorsoft Press books for 2005 are great but the ones for 2008 have mixed reviews. For 2008 you can try books published by WROX

Use Microsoft Visio. Its cool.

You have to convert to NTFS

I would go with second configuration. But one more thing I would like to add. Generally we prefer keeping the index file on a separate drive than the data file....

do you provide sa password? if yes try logging in using that. If you are able to login , then you will have to fix all the orphan users.