Scenario is when you are trying to open or upgrade SSIS package created in SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 R2 then you may encounter below error and your package upgrade will fail, please find few tips on resolving this error below.   Error Description: Failed to decrypt protected XML node “DTS:Property” with error 0x8009000B “Key not valid for use in specified state.”. You may not be authorized to access this information. This error occurs when […]

Scenario is, we have SQL 2000 as database engine and outlook 2007 as mail client, now as we know SQL 2000 requires MAPI client for SQL mail configuration and from records we need minimum Outlook 2000 client, in this case we have outlook 2007 client present. I was skeptical initially that whether SQL mail will at all work with outlook 2007 or not, by going through several articles and forums, I found it to be […]