When I arrived at a customer site the first time I discovered that their maintenance plan "job step 1" had been failing for the past month.  All of the files appeared...

The two posts are correct; but more detailed answers are in the replication forum.  I would read both the 2005 and 7/2000 forums on general principle.  I have the same...

he guessed.  you say it worked perfectly.

did it solve your trusted connection problem?

If so, was the problem still present right before installed the service pack?

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You state,  "Note - It is a server hardware issue as there is in excess of 3 GB ram, the database is on a SAN and there are 4 3Ghz...

I spent several months, initially with beta and finally GA software, and I would suggest that you will want to learn SSIS and hopefully make it work on a stand-alone...

of course it will. <geez!>

All of this is of little comfort for Eric.  He's screwed.

Perhaps he can setup a snapshot using replication, vs. the new feature called "snapshot" in 2005.  Sounds like this would...

Thanks for the response, and for the scripts.  I will be looking at them carefully with the next five days (probably weekends included )

No,...

I cannot tell from this post what version you actually have... someone else responded with an answer; but it looks like you downloaded something else, which did nothing.  What version...

it is highly unlikely that SP 4 will fix that problem.  Of course, if you are not already at 3 or 3a, you should be patching; but your error is...

you only need the hotfix to sp4 if you are running a machine with 4 GB RAM or more and have AWE turned on in OS and DB.  Otherwise, the...

Good job!  thank you very much.  It will go in my script library for future use.  For anyone else who tries it, you will have to add the "b." to...

RSConfig.exe is part of Reporting Services, not IIS.

yes, that is why I asked the question "but how do I check for schema changes prior to each scheduled replication? "