In addition to the fact that it takes less time to spin up on the Reporting Services, I trust the Database Driver for SQL to release connections (which I've been...

Thanks for the workaround.  I would hope that particular quirk would be handled better in the next version.  In spite of a few quirkinesses, I'm really impressed with the Reporting Services product.  Beats...

Check the license manager to see if the licenses have been explicitly assigned.  If you're using Windows Authentication with CALS, it is quite possible that the license has been assigned to...

Don't know that the client will allow me to post it, but I can ask. Otherwise, I will look and see if anything in any of the system tables...

Actually, from what they told me, they did reattach the databases, but possibly they should try it again. Thanks for the heads up, though. This is so difficult because...

I have had exactly this same problem on exactly this same configuration (NT 4.0 SP6a and SQL Server 7.0 SP6) twice in 2 years. Backup jobs were working fine...

Hadn't had a chance to call MS. Tried bacz's suggestion and ran the advanced option registry repair. That seemed to fix the problem. Thanks, so much!!

Ok. Will put in a call and let you know what's up.

Thanks.

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Tried installing SP2 on the problem box. The Server Properties window still appears for about a second then disappears.

Have registered the problem server on another SQL Server EM...

In my situation, it is a client's database box on their VPN in the datacenter and this behavior is on the database server itself. Other elements of the EM...

Have also had the exact same strange behavior with the exact same platform on one server that seemed to start suddenly. Also tried un and re-registering the server and...

Since this machine already is in use by the first of a number of clients, we can't just reboot whenever we would like to. Once we were given the...