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You are welcome. Again, even in a VM, you might try isolating it from the network once you've gotten the backups restored, before you restart. Then you can practice renaming.

Thanks, and no worries. I'll get to it as quick as I can.

Locking this thread for now.

I'll let Dan respond as he runs the league

Graylog is also popular.

Sorry, I didn't list everything. You should verify all of this in BOL or checking as well, rather than just assuming myself or someone else covers this.

Server roles...

Those requirements don't quite make sense, especially given your results. If you have multiple rows, then do you pick a random one? That seems incomplete and you ought to be...

twittered. We'll see who gets in.

me,...

Have you tried anything? The best way to begin here is with a SELECT to find the values you want. Given your results, I'm guessing you want to choose the...

If you restore master, you get logins, linked servers, config settings (These need to be checked if different hardware).
If you restore msdb , you get jobs, operators, schedules, all...

Send the mails locally with the local client first. Make sure that your SMTP sender can do so.

You can do this with telnet or a local client :

Hmmm, I have no idea. It looks like there is some issue with the service for sure, which I'd guess is the upgrade. The note about the cert being about...

What's the exact error?

Also, I'm guessing that from what you said the SSRS service won't start? Or is the site won't load?

I got this from someone: https://twitter.com/EduardoDBA/status/1034104956939321344

Just open the old SSRS Configuation manager and backup the certificates, then restore it on the new ssrs version