How often do you do this? Look over each message (type) in the errorlog file and determine whether this is something you want to act on. Sure, some (but not all) of you have some monitoring solution in place, but are you 100% confident that it really will notify for all messages that you might find interesting? That there isn't even one little ...

Say you want to change the preferred netlib connection order. Or add a server alias. You can do this using the ''SQL Server Configuration Manager'' program. But installing this on each client machine where you want to do the modification might not feel that attractive. Another option is to use a tool like regmon while doing the config on a ...