How to properly do a bulk copy of tables that contains identity columns

I have been struggling with this for a couple of hours now. Now matter what options I set in the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Import and Export Wizard, I cannot manage it to correctly transfer my identity columns.

It turns out that this is a bug in SQL Server 2005. There are a couple of proclaimed workarounds like this and this. However that didn’t work for me. I cannot uncheck the “Optimize for Many Tables”, because if I do, I get a lot of other key errors when the package runs.

So I stumbled upon this utility, the Simple SQL Bulk Copy.

It worked great! My tables containing identity columns was transferred correctly.