Error 0x80070057 when creating maintenance plan

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Error 0x80070057 when creating maintenance plan

alex meunier

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October 24, 2016 at 7:57 am

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Hi,
I have just installed a new default instance
SQL 2016 DEv
CU2
Windows 2012R2 Standard
Basic features: DB , search, connect tools, doc
The install and the CU installed successfully.
Nothing of importance in errorlog
When I try to create a maintenance plan using the Wizard, any task, I get an error at the end when I click <finish>...
The first line "Creating maintenance plan "blablabla" Error :
Cannot create a task from XML for task "", type "" due to error 0x80070057 "The parameter is incorrect.".
(OnPreExecute)
Anyone got this before?

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WilburBud SSCrazy Points: 2914 More actions · Answer 1

What version of SSMS are you using? You can get a recent SSMS here (16.4.1):

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238290.aspx

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alex meunier

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October 24, 2016 at 9:56 am

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that's what I have SSMS 16.4.1

alex meunier SSC-Addicted Points: 475 More actions · Answer 3

Update:

using SSMS 2008R2 remotely, I'm able to create the maintenance plan.

So it would seem that the issues would be with SSMS 2016, there would

be a prequisite that is needed but still went on with a successfull install.

I don't see the install logs for SSMS 2016, is there one?

cphite SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4272 More actions · Answer 4

alex meunier (10/24/2016)
Update:
using SSMS 2008R2 remotely, I'm able to create the maintenance plan.
So it would seem that the issues would be with SSMS 2016, there would
be a prequisite that is needed but still went on with a successfull install.
I don't see the install logs for SSMS 2016, is there one?

Have you tried it with a different Windows user account?

I ask because, in the past when I've seen "Cannot create a task from XML for task" errors, they've sometimes been related to the Windows profile. Whenever you do something like create a maintenance plan, SSMS writes temporary files containing the commands that it wants to run. Sometimes those temp folders go missing, or get moved, or have their permissions messed.

If you have another account that you can use one that machine, try logging in as that and creating a maintenance plan.

If that does turn out to be the issue, you can generally resolve it by blowing away the user profile on the machine and when you log that account in again and start SSMS it should set everything up again. If that isn't an option for your user account, you can try going into the %TEMP% location for that user profile and manually deleting the temp files associated with SSMS.

raman_bansal77 SSC Enthusiast Points: 166 More actions · Answer 5

Install SSDT from installation media . It will definitely fix the issue

raman_bansal77 SSC Enthusiast Points: 166 More actions · Answer 6

Install SSDT from installation media . It will definitely fix the issue

Senthil Duraisamy SSC Enthusiast Points: 181 More actions · Answer 7

Instead of installing SSDT on the server, installing latest SSMS (v17.2 in my case) along with v16.5.3 solved the issue. Both ssms versions were installed side by side.