Symptoms
Consider the following scenario: In Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you use the DTExec.exe or DTExecUi.exe utility to run a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package. You specify a configuration file by using the /ConfigFile option when you run the DTExec.exe or DTExecUi.exe utilities. The configuration file contains many configurations for objects in the package. However, the paths of the objects that are referenced in the configuration file do not exist in the current package. For example, you use a shared configuration file for many packages. However, some variables, connection managers, tasks, or other objects that are referenced in the shared configuration file are not contained in all packages. In this scenario, when you run the command, you receive the following error message:

Code: 0×80012017
Source: Package
Description: The package path referenced an object that cannot be found: “Path”. This occurs when an attempt is made to resolve a package path to an object that cannot be found.
DTExec: Could not import the configuration file Configuration File.
Additionally, if you specify the shared configuration file in Business Intelligence Design Studio (BIDS) when you design the SSIS package, instead of specifying the shared configuration file by using the /ConfigFile option, the package can run successfully. The SupressConfigurationWarnings package setting does not affect this issue.
Note This issue does not occur in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. In SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, the command provides warning messages as expected for the invalid values. However, the command can run successfully.
Resolution
The fix for this issue was first released in Cumulative Update4 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1. For more information about this cumulative update package, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
973602?(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973602/LN/) Cumulative update package 4 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1Note Because the builds are cumulative, each new fix release contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous SQL Server 2008 fix release. Microsoft recommends that you consider applying the most recent fix release that contains this hotfix. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
970365?(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970365/LN/) The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 was releasedMicrosoft SQL Server 2008hotfixes are created for specific SQL Server service packs. You must apply a SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 hotfix to an installation of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1. By default, any hotfix that is provided in a SQL Server service pack is included in the next SQL Server service pack.