• John Cooper (5/22/2014)


    Thanks Jeff,

    That's what I have been doing is opening it in SSMS, clicking on properties and then OK.

    I was wondering if someone had found a better way. I manage 45 servers with 5 Linked Servers each so even though the properties

    tab thing works, it's not practical.

    I wonder if there is a programmatic way of doing it maybe? I'm going to investigate that.

    I'd do a trace/xevent session against a dev server when opening the linked server properties window to identify what that actually does and then maybe try running a script that duplicates those actions against another dev server to see if it fixes the problem.