Working my way through SQL Server 2012 in preparation for upgrading development next month, and its going very well.
Microsoft has tweaked the SQL Server Management Studio design-a-backup maintenance plan feature, they removed the "cleanup backup files" and "cleanup report files" tasks from the toolbox. I found the replacement for "cleanup backup files", there is an option to expire data sets after a certain number of days or a certain date. However what is the replacement for deleting the maintenance plan report text files after a certain number of iterations? Its not good for them to just keep adding every night, true they take very little space, but its a mess and makes things hard to find. And I really don't want to go in every now and then and delete them manually, there must be a better way.
I looked in Books Online but could find nothing. Appreciate your help!