Yeah it does and that's what I've observed too. I tried copying individual components which reference connection managers but failed. And the worst thing (perhaps you can let...

Mm.... Interesting point about the tasks referencing the connection managers. So how do we design something on one machine, and then deploy it intact onto another box?

Well the only database connection in the pool of connections I've created, is to do a select statement only. I configured the original .dtsx package on the original server...