thanks! - update the sysjobs.orginating_server fixed the error. I deleted the jobs and maintenance plan since they were simple. Recreated the jobs with the GUI. Better than...

I recently went through a corruption issue with the master and/or msdb on a SQL 2000 server. It was a test server fortunately. I battled for over a...

I have a few 2008R2 servers in production and haven't had any problems. Most are running on Windows 2008R2 but I do have one running on Windows 2003R2. ...

try modifying the service account using sql server configuration manager ?

Yep! That's how I move the master database as well. Modifying the startup configuration parameters using the SS Config Manager works well for me. I was...

Thank you!

What a silly interface quirk - can modify the log location by 'configure' of the logs but not for the agent itself even though it's listed...

You need to check with your reps, seems very difficult to find someone who can answer licensing questions definitively BUT locally our rep said that if you have SQL2008 EE...

true - but if you have near term plans for consolidation you may need to get DC edition along with Windows server DC

also as an fyi anyone who has a...

Two other important changes

15-25% increase in price

EE is now limited to 4 VM's (2008 was unlimited)

Compression in SE is a good feature.