• If you're running it as a SQL Agent job, why not enable xp_cmdshell on the first step, run the utility in the next step then disable xp_cmdshell in the last step. I do that for one of my tasks that requires xp_cmdshell. If it runs in seconds, any attack window is minimal.



    Scott Duncan

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