Hi Steve,

The domain stuff was done by the infrastructure team.... So don't know whether they did what you suggested with that.

With regards to SSMS I connected directly to the server using the server name rather than (local) just in case this was set incorrectly.

In the end I deleted the maintenance plans from MSDB directly... What I didn't really understand was the fact that when I deleted the plan off of the new server using SSMS it deleted (partially) from the other server.... All very strange...

Pete