Thanks for the reply Brian.  It is a production instance set up by someone else that I inherited.     I have looked and looked to see where in configuration the...

thanks ssms is 2014 installed from the 2014 install media and it matches what is on the server version wise.  everything looks the same versioning wise.

Thanks for the replies guys, I get s:\ and l:\ when I run those queries.  I have already checked the default paths thats why this is so confusing to me. ...

Ok thanks all for the responses.   I will rebuild all the indexes at this point and see.  I appreciate it!

Thanks Sue!  It was the logshipping backup job on the primary.  Its scheduled for every 15 minutes and I see agent logs and history for it consistently just not during...

Thanks Maxer! I think I am understanding this now. I didn't have a listener so I am setting that up now to see if it works....

Thanks Everyone for the help. It turned out to be very simple, but still a little uneasy about the situation. Our maintenance was taking tlog backups and sending...

Thanks for the replys everyone. I have tried from different versions of ssms 2014 and the same behavior exists. If I use 2008r2 it sees the revoceryplan and...

Thanks for the replies. Yes we have the funding we actually have a rather large budget and get a educational price break that is amazing. We usually...

Thanks everyone, some great information and steps to follow. Greg, great information and guidelines. Thankyou all.

Thanks for the feed back. I have thought about this and will do so where we can. That said some of our software requires a named instance but...

Thanks for the quick reply! I actually run one line of code that calls sp_change_users_login so I guess it would be read/write