Wed, Jul 30 2008 12:51
bradley
SBS 2008 and Run As Administrator
So on SBS 2008 you want to open up the SBS 2008 monitoring database... okay so "I" wanted to... and when you click on the SQL Server management express you get this lovely error when trying to open up the SQL SBSMonitoring instance.
So the trick is to open up that SQL management tool with Run As Administrator. Duh.
Okay so because it's clear that I'm lazy and can't remember which ones RunAs and which ones don't, I want to build a shortcut on the desktop that prechecks that. Start, Programs find the SQL management program and right mouse click and "send to" "desktop, create shortcut" as the first step. Now that we have the icon on the desktop.
Right mouse click on it and in the Compatibility tab, click on Run As Administrator and Apply
Now when you click on the ICON you will get a UAC prompt
And once you do that you can log into SQL instance for the SBSMonitoring
Remember the Forefront console needs this as well.
So if at first you get an error, try Run As Administrator.
Filed under: sbs 2008
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