Good article. As someone who's worked with SSIS for about a year, a lot of your recommendations rang true.

I'm not sure I concur with the one-configuration-setting-per-configuration-file suggestion...

1) This is a SQL SERVER question? Why not ask questions about fractal image compression or the different between lossy or loss-less compression? Geeze!

2) If you're users are...

re: Avinash's response

Hear hear. Sounds like someone's been reading fringe books.

I'll take a stab at it. Sounds like the SQL Client Tools on the workstation you're running EM on isn't installed completely. I ran into this same situation...