This service pack requires a reboot. Does anyone know whether or not the installation of SP3 can be done let's say during a saturday evening and the actual follow up...

There is a Cumulative update package for SQL Server 2008 that took care of the issue.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956717/en-us for more info.

Nope: The "guid" named jobs reappeared. It is like there is a nightly reporting servcie job that goes though and checks to see if the job exists and rebuilds it....

Ok, got it working I think. The key is not to remove the schedule within the job but to simply disable the job.

I now tried basically the same approach as the article. After renaming the “guid” named job to some meaningful name, I also disabled it and had the newly renamed job...

I was using this approach, but instead of renaming the job I created a new one and borrowed the step from the original job. I did this because I wanted...