How to Run DTS Package from remote server with SQL 2005

I am new to SQL Server and need to understand how to run DTS packages (SSIS) in SQL 2005 from a remote server? In other words run them from another server from where the database is installed.

I am looking for any links on the subject, guidance on how to set this up and how to use it.

Regards,

Lee

You just have to have the ssis runtime installed on the system you want to run the packages from. As long as you can make a connection from that machine to your database machine you should be ok. And of course you also need the workstation components installed on whatever machine you're doing your dev work from.

If you want to store your packages in the msdb db you may run into a problem because the default is to use the default instance on the local machine to connect to the msdb. There's a file you can edit to change this but I can't remember it off the top of my head.

|||If I correctly understard the question, you have a server where you have installed SSIS and some packages, and you want to start these packages from a remote computer (client), right?

The usual way to set this up is to create Agent Job that will run the package, without any schedule - so it would not run by itself. Then when you need to run the package from the client, you execute Agent stored proc (via SQL) to start the Job.|||

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the information. I will share this with the other developers working with me on this.

Lee

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