Great article, i've stretched the copy and restore delays as far as i can within the sync limit though our log size surges seem fairly random so I can't schedule around them. This should resolve that issue.

Out of interest would it work if I simply ran the entire log shipping process within an SSIS package. Will the next task in the SSIS control flow not wait for the previous one to complete before executing thus avoiding the contention caused by the tasks stepping on each others toes?

Thanks

Chris