I'm importing an SSIS package into SQL Server 2008 Integration Services . The package name contains dots and I'm getting this error message: The package name, What.No.Dots, contains characters that are not valid. The following characters are not valid: \ / : . * ? " < > | [ ] = Parameter name: What.No.Dots (MsDtsSrvr) Is this really the case with SQL Server 2008? I could import packages with dots in the name into SQL Server 2005. I know this sounds like a dumb question, but I want to double check before I rename all my SSIS packages

I tried with both 2005 and 2008, in both cases you can not deploy package on SQL Server with names which contains dot ( . ) . but you can deploy them in filesystem without any problem.http://www.rad.pasfu.com

Thanks for your reply. My last project, all package names containes dots, maintained in Visual source safe. But in production all packages running fine ( DBA's taking care of production system, i guess at some point we need to put the packages in Sql server to run ) Vj

You probably deployed your packages as File System and this is why you have all of them with dot names without any problem. you can deploy them on file system on new SSIS 2008 server with dot names too. but if you want to store them in msdb ( SQL Server option ), you need to obey the rule for naming without dots.http://www.rad.pasfu.com

You probably deployed your packages as File System and this is why you have all of them with dot names without any problem. you can deploy them on file system on new SSIS 2008 server with dot names too. but if you want to store them in msdb ( SQL Server option ), you need to obey the rule for naming without dots.http://www.rad.pasfu.com