Activity monitor is unable to execute queries against server

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Published on 2010-05-14T10:53:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 10:54 UTC
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SQL Server Activity Monitor fails with an error dialog:

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
The Activity Monitor is unable to execute queries against server [SERVER]. Activity Monitor for this instance will be placed into a paused state. Use the context menu in the overview pane to resume the Activity Monitor.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Unable to find SQL Server process ID [PID] on server [SERVER] (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.ResourceMonitoring)

I have this problem on SQL Server 2008 R2 x64 Developer Edition, but I think it is found in all 64bit systems using SQL Server 2008, under some yet unidentified conditions.

There is a bug report on this in Microsoft Connect.

It seems that the problem is not solved yet.

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