You will find that most of Dynamic's is written in cursors, we have the exact same issue here. Was talking about this yesterday on a different thread.

You need to...

Yep exactly what I thought, its because you dont have the "disconnect users................" setting checked, which I detailed in my first post and the one above.

What are your intentions for...

Thanks, one thing I would say is enable the "disconnect users.............." check box if you are going into standby mode as this way it will not fail any restores and...

can you detail the setup, backup/copy/restore/restore delay frequencies as well as the paths both local and UNC, or even better screen shots of the log shipping configuration.

it would seem that...

Yeah its nasty, from what I have heard about the whole Dynamics range, is that it was purchased off a company that was developing the suite for Oracle, obivously Oracle...

Is this Dynamics AX by any chance?

vm and tin, thats even better as you may have overloaded virtual hosts which could add on to the issue

if you email me the details (disturbed.chucky@gmail.com) i will be happy...

To be honest I don't think you can as the report manager url section requires the virtual directory to be populated.

Can you not try a host header or a redirect...

I have had this before where even though I was a member of a windows group which had sysadmin access it wouldnt let me see any of the activity monitors.

To...

Also if you can get the capacity of the disks on a disk by disk basis and the capacity of the RAID groups.

Can you describe the company estate, is it a whole VM estate, all physical tin or a mixture of both?

The first thing I would try and force your infrastructure people...

if you have already created a maintenance plan outside of log shipping to backup your logs then you are fine you dont need to do any manual backups.

in a log...

That error message indicates to me that either the first time logshipping was set up, it completed but missed the creation of a job, or and I would say this...

I would either create a server or database role depending on the scope of work, then assign the nessesary access the person is allowed to complete to that role. ...

If you really wanted to you could put every database mdf/ndf/ldf on the same drive but I wouldnt as you might as well just say can I have my P45...