Central Management Server or Regate Multiscript can do this as well.

Have you tried backing up to a different location/drive/file?

AFAIK, you cannot convert the named instance to a default instance. You'd have to install as a default instance.

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I think the various suggestions posted are all likely good questions to think about writing about. If anyone wants to tackle any of them

This would be interesting. What Id' say is that you shoudl write about how you use this to help you, not try to solve every possible issue. You built these...

That's certainly what this is. There are customers that want this type of managed environment because of scale. They don't want to manage a data center any longer, or are...

This is crazy. I'm going to yoga and then making turkey chili later. You crew are bad for my diet.

I don't think there is. There is a localized version of SQL Server in German, not for Germany, but in German. This version can be installed side by side with...

I think you get error messages and the error log in Swedish. Not sure about the tools even.

My guess is that it's more an issue for Asian languages...