We have a SQL Server agent job that has ran successfully for the past 6 months. It started failing about a week ago. I don't believe anyone installed anything on the server. The proxy account used to run the job is an admin on the server. I've tried everything I can think of or that I found on searches. I even changed the connection manager from an Excel source to using an Microsoft office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLEDB connection and it still runs in BIDs and not as an agent job. I also setup my LANID as a proxy account to see if the job would run (checking security) -- and it fails with the same error. I also made sure the path is\\server\share rather than a drive letter. Any ideas?
The package is executed in 32 bit mode. The package still runs fine in BIDS (where BIDs is opened on the server) but fails in the SQL Agent job with:
Executed as user: xxxxxx\xxxxxx. Microsoft (R) SQL Server Execute Package Utility Version 11.0.2100.60 for 32-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Started: 9:00:00 AM Error: 2014-12-01 09:00:02.46 Code: 0xC0202009 Source: xxxxxx Connection manager "Excel Connection Manager" Description: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft Access Database Engine" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "External table is not in the expected format.". End Error Error: 2014-12-01 09:00:02.65 Code: 0xC020801C Source: Load File to Staging Excel Source [43] Description: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager"Excel Connection Manager" failed with error code 0xC0202009. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the AcquireConnection method call failed. End Error Error: 2014-12-01 09:00:02.77 Code: 0xC0047017 Source: Load File to Staging SSIS.Pipeline Description: Excel Source failed validation and returned error code 0xC020801C. End Error Error: 2014-12-01 09:00:02.90 Code: 0xC004700C Source: Load File to Staging SSIS.Pipeline Description: One or more component failed validation. End Error Error: 2014-12-01 09:00:03.02 Code: 0xC0024107 Source: Load File to Staging Description: There were errors during task validation. End Error DTExec: The package execution returned DTSER_FAILURE (1). Started: 9:00:00 AM Finished: 9:00:03 AM Elapsed: 2.761 seconds. The package execution failed. The step failed.