Don't worry Lynn.....i don't think I will ever work for u ....................Anyway it was nice knowing that there could be several reasons that building SSIS packgaes at local machine might not be possible and feasible in some instances...and you mentioned one of the reasons, and there are few more.....( and there are few more..........but i bet you u know that all...after all u seems to have a whole lot about SSIS) and same thing happen to me...............

I am not saying you cannot build and test SSIS in your local machine rather doing than remote desktop connection. I am just saying it is more easy for me. When you are working with over 100 SSIS packages - even changing Drive name, folder strcture, copying data files, locally and loading millions rows just for test and config file is just waste of time and resources for me. Common it's just a dev machine.....it's where I exercise my possibilities.......I should not be bound by any sort of restrctions other than company ploicy...

Well, let's focus here on the real issue and help him solve the problem...

Merry X-mas