I usually accomplish this with DNS names that are not the hostnames of the SQL Servers. You probably will not be able to set that up for the move...

Could this be a User Access Control problem, then? Windows is starting to move away from allowing people to write files tot he root of drives.

This is the sort of thing that makes me put "Access Denied" at the very top of my most hated error messages list. Just once, I would love to...

The only thing I can think of is that it may not actually be a SQL 2012 instance. Even eval edition instances should show up. Could this really...

I am not sure, but I think I smell a normalization problem here. From the data you have given, it looks like the ID field is interpreted as a...

Since the T-SQL backup succeeded, that implies that the SQL Server service account has appropriate permissions. Could the GUI be using the user's credentials to confirm the existence of...

I have to deal with a vendor who has the following advice in their Tuning and Scaling guide:

Setting Recovery Model to Simple has the lowest amount of overhead over Full...

Is this cluster running with Always On? In that case, you would need to create all of the logins on both instances of SQL Server.

To be fair, it will only tell you some of the contents of the file, and will not update anything. I am just curious to see if a) ...

Can you do a restoreheaderonly from the backup file?

Check to see if the snapshot job has run. If you right click on the replication in Management Studio, you should see an option for View Snapshot Agent Status.

Change the execute as principal from the domain user to dbo.

Alternatively, you can grant the alter any role permission in the database, and he can add users to any role...

The errors are largely from SQL Agent. They are saying you can not start a job that is currently running. It is nothing to worry over.

You may very well be signing up for a lot of work (and troubleshooting afterward) that may not be necessary. What is reason for the change in the collation?...

On the guess that you mean you want all of the files to be the same size, or the same usage, this may go one of two ways. Are...