SSIS is not installed on the server. Not sure if these steps would apply. This is just utilizing maintenance plans. Integration Services isn't required to be installed correct? It's not...

I am creating new maintenance plans. There were no prior jobs or maintenance plans. Ironically, I can create a manual job, for example to cycle the errorlog or a backup....

I also want to add that I tested running the services under the local system account (just to test, I know this isn't an option) to see if the job...

The sql agent account has sysadmin privs. What other privileges does it need?

Thank you all for your responses.

Thanks for the quick reply. As to the install question. Does it matter that SQL 2008 is already installed prior to installing SQL 2005? Any gotchas?