Opening DTS packages on a 2008 SQL Server requires several steps to be able to view the packages in a DTS designer.  Here’s a link to these steps on a 32-bit machine or on a 64-bit machine.  After following these step you will be able to open your DTS packages in the DTS Designer.

These steps are great for opening DTS packages but I ran into a problem recently where I was not able to import packages on my server which shouldn’t require as many prerequisites like opening packages does.

When I attempted to import a package I received the following error:

[DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. (Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server)

After doing some research I found the problem in a blog by Xinwei Hong.  He has several possible problems listed, which luckily was solved by his first solution.  It is was a simple fix and here are the steps I followed to fix my problem:

1. Open the SQL Server Configuration Manager

2.  Expand on SQL Server Network Configuration and select Protocols for MSSQLSERVER

3.  Enable TCP/IP.  Not sure why this was disabled to begin with but that was my problem