Hi,
I recently enabled database mail in SQL (2008R2), setup a mail profile, set SQL Agent to use it and restarted SQL Agent. SQL Agent starts ok but when trying to look at job properties or history I get the error:
Error 14258: Cannot perform this operation while SQLServerAgent is starting. Try again later.
I have checked lightweight pooling mode is not enabled and also that no databases are in recovery mode. I have also disabled database mail and unticked the SQL Agent mail option and restarted, to no avail.
The SQL Agent service was running quite happily as an unpriveleged domain user. The only way I have found to get SQL Agent running correctly again is to set the service to run using a domain admin account. Running as local system gives the same error.
Please can someone advise?
Thanks,
Edd Parsons