And that was part of my question as well that there might be another it-function outside my view .. I was hoping someone might have something to kind of point...

We do have transaction log back ups that happen at the top of the hour .. but some are every 2 hours other some start on the :10s or :20's...

Thanks guys for you help!

Thank you for your quick reply .. haven't worked much with WMI I will have to look into how to use that ..

Again .. thank you for the reply, as far as sharing the disk that we are ok with each instance gets a different slice from the san with data files...

Very good article, and thank you for the reply, but even in that article if you follow the advice there is still a recommendation for 1/4 or 1/2 instead of...

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frustating no even having a real error message to troubleshoot off of.

MSI (s) (9C:50) [10:09:50:985]: Executing op: CleanupTempFiles(TempFiles=C:\WINDOWS\Installer\303377.msp)

MSI (s) (9C:50) [10:09:50:985]: Scheduling file 'C:\WINDOWS\Installer\303377.msp' for deletion during post-install cleanup...

Thank you for your reply! But alas that file does exist and is same version/date/size as my other servers with same build.

I'd like to thank you guys who took the time to read and respond to my initial query .. and we did finally find a resolution. Apparently the C:\Documents...

Ok just an addendum .. on my standalone machine I changed the account that runs the sqlserver service from being a domain user who had admin rights on the server...

and the agent accounts are AD users we use for each instance.

Ok .. I have tried just about everything and still no go. I was starting to think maybe it was just a 64 bit thing and that provider...

Local Admin I am not a domain admin

Alright .. so now I created the share through cluster admin opened it up for EVERYONE full control, checked the ntfs permissions on the folder, everyone full control, recreated my...