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  • December 28, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    #1096829

    I'm pretty certain that this is because Windows 2008 R2 is 64-bit whereas the DTS Designer is 32-bit. Although I'd think that it would still run using WOW64, the installer for the DTS backwards-compatibility components may be 16-bit, in which case you're out of luck.