Tried the whole process again using the right directory. Worked like a charm.

I am on the same mission. Here is my thread from last week with two URLs with free tools

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1243836-391-1.aspx

I tried both tools. The Idera tool gave me with...

As far as pros and cons: you should have very little problems with SQL Agent as far as handling your jobs. As far as backing up your databases you...

Awesome. Thanks!

What is correct term for this SQL problem. Would it be called single value Pivot?

Thank you. I feel much the same. Just a tad bit nervous as this is probably the biggest gig I'll ever get, don't want to drop the ball.

Yep - I printed out the job description. I have experience in everything they do minus one minor bullet point. My real fear is the volume of the...

We believe that the sheer volume of jobs reconnecting flooded the AD server requests and timed out the jobs.

Starting the agents manually solved it. Like I said, this server...

Additionally, after adding more than one subscriber to the new publication the event viewer blows up with Distrib.exe can not initialize application.

I think we are hitting the ceiling of our...

we have 18 publications, with one distribution database.

I can not pinpoint the issue because this isn't happening if I set the agents to run as the sql server agent...

I made the switch, but it still didn't give enough back to the system.

I will have to change more to shared, or expand the desktop heap settings it appears.

Thank you so much. I could not find that anywhere on the net or in Books online.

I can't find any support documentation to switch to shared agents. I'm assuming you would have to do that from T-SQL?

Yes - I remember making some registry setting changes via a call from Microsoft Premier Support. After making those changes I was able to run more replication processes, but...

I have had to do the same thing in the past.