Yes. I tried it out yesterday...

@Phil... Glad to see I'm not the only person having problems with it. I wound up scripting it too. Do you know if this is some sort...

Don't be afraid to ask questions. I learn something new everyday on this site.

Steve,

Great post. I learned a long time ago that there will always be someone who know more than I do. But being the competitive person that I am,...

Are you able to able to send out email locally within your network? The error message you pasted had a reference to abcdf@test.com. I still believe it's...

Books Online is a great resource, but what helped me out was to come up with business questions that someone mights ask. Such as, how many widgets did we...

Backup failures will write to the windows error log. That will contain the specific reason as to why it failed.

I'm not sure what your mail server is, but Exchange has a property you can set to allow for relaying.

If you're on a SAN I would check to see if you are sharing disk activity with some other function.

I looks like your package is trying to find a config file. But it doesn't exist in the new environment.

Within the loop you can use a file system task to move the file based on the source you have in a variable. I wrote an article a few...

You can query msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory to see if the job was successful or not. If you go this route, you'll need to create a linked server to check the job...

What's the error message that's being thrown by the task? It could really be a number of things.

What about using codepage 37 in your import process? It's been a while since I've worked with EBCDIC but I remember I had to change the codepage and was...

Can't you map it at the OS level and just set it to reconnect at logon?