You should consider setting up policies to monitor the RTO/RPO in your availability groups.  Review this document which outlines code that can be used to monitor - as well as...

SQL Server 2005 has a couple of groups added that are local to the actual machine - not domain groups - added as logins, not to mention the BUILTIN\Administrators group.

Full or Diff backups do not affect the log chain - they are independent from backups.  Full backups set the differential base LSN - and differentials are tied to the...

Another backup was taken - could be a VM snapshot was taken at that time which generated a new base for the differential which would be different than what you...

How are you deploying the package to the server?

You should implement the Integration Services Catalog - and deploy your packages to the catalog.  The packages can then be...

I don't think you will be able to change that on the reporting system - to do so you would have to bring the database online first.  If you are...

What are you going to do with the output from the procedure - and what does that procedure actually do?  If you need this data in the local instance -...