Hi All, There are lots of methods documented and available on internet. But if you think about the execution of anything you may find more options. Particularly for SSIS packages, there is a golden rule to be bear in mind when planning for executing ssis packages, i.e. you will need SSIS RunTime. Following is the excerpt from my previous post “http://bigator.com/2012/02/17/the-task-scr-get-task-start-time-cannot-run-on-this-edition-of-integration-services-it-requires-a-higher-level-edition-ssis-2005-dtexec-execution-result/”