SSIS connection manager login fails

Question

I have an SSIS project wherein I defined a Data Source (provider: Native OLE DB/Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server). When I open this up manually and hit the button \"

Answer 1

ProtectionLevel "DontSaveSensitive" means the password won't get saved with the SSIS package at all. The reason SSIS does this is so that the password isn't floating around where someone else could get it.

So when you type in the password and hit the button "test connection" it all works fine. But when you run in debug mode (or in production), you don't have a password. Therefore, of course, the login fails.

This is why you need a configuration file. See my answer here:

You create a configuration file for the connection string, but the password won't get saved to the configuration file either. You will have to edit the configuration file manually if you want it to include a password. But the best way to do this is to configure the password when you schedule the job that executes the SSIS package. That keeps the password in a safe place, and it isn't floating around all over the place with the SSIS package.

While you are debugging, of course, you need a configuration file that has the password manually typed into it. But that configuration file doesn't go with the package when it's deployed to production. The production config file should have a blank password. The password should live in the scheduled job that executes the package.