Ken, I'm sending good vibes your way, and hope you recover soon. Thank you for always contributing so much of your wisdom and time, be well soon!

I see this issue is patched in CU8 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4077064/cumulative-update-8-for-sql-server-2016-sp1

if you are still looking into this, I found a great little tutorial gets you from a to z

http://devkimchi.com/811/service-broker-external-activator-for-sql-server-step-by-step-1/[/url]

I simply have one outstanding question, how can ssbea be setup on...

I had to run sgen on my class and add it to my assembly as well..

hope this helps someone too.

It looks like for Visual Studio 2012, I need to run sgen from the Visual Studio Command Prompt like this: sgen path to .dll and you get the dllName.XMLSerializer.dll file...

:w00t: WOW... thank you so much.. I don't know why I couldn't see the forest for the trees, but WOW there it is!!! :w00t:

for those interested parties, I have...

Wow, I Kept fiddling with it and I can get it to work :w00t: .... but I still require some help 😀

The code below creates a Single Column 2 Row...

tdb92843,

Are you saying that you cannot ping server...

The way we finally setup our email was to enable smtp on the RS server since it has IIS, and locked it down for the local IP 127.0.0.1 and enabled...

I finally figured out my error using this blog. While I restored the db w/ the NORECOVERY option, I wasn't doing the same for the transaction log. I...

I ran a netstat to verify that the primary server IS listening on proposed port. that is verified. but the error is persistent?

I am following the steps here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189127.aspx

and

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337361.aspx

I setup the endpoint and confirmed that the server is using my specified port, but I still get the dreaded error...

Thanks, that is what it was. I enabled the sql browser and i was able to connect to the the instance. I am still having a problem with...

I'm not 100% up on my terminology for Sql Server 2005, but Sql Server Browser is that just the Management Studio?

I forgot to add that to the original post, I did try rebooting the server and still no luck.