How to Transfer Linked Servers from one server to another automatically?

  • Dear All,

    Please help me to generate script automatically for transferring Linked Servers from one server to another. I know I can right click on a specific Linked Server and generate script Create To but I need to make it automatic. I have already done this process for transferring Login from Main Server to Fail over by scheduling Batch File. But it's not possible for Linked Servers.

    Regards,
    Sanaz .

  • Sanaz

    Go to Linked Servers in Object Explorer, then open Object Explorer Details you can then select all the linked servers and hence script them out in one go.  If you want to make it fully automatic then you'll need to derive your own scripts from sys.servers and other catalog views.  You can get help with doing that by running an Extended Events session (or Profiler trace if you're old-school) and capturing what happens when you generate a script for a linked server.

    John

  • Thank you John.

    Is it possible to make "Script Lined Server as > Create To  > File" procedure automatically?

    Regards,
    Sanaz .

  • sani - Wednesday, August 1, 2018 2:08 AM

    Is it possible to make "Script Lined Server as > Create To  > File" procedure automatically?

    I don't think so - unless there are some PowerShell cmdlets for SSMS that I'm not aware of.  That was why I made my second suggestion.  It's a bit of extra work, but you only have to do it once.

    John

  • John Mitchell-245523 - Wednesday, August 1, 2018 2:12 AM

    sani - Wednesday, August 1, 2018 2:08 AM

    Is it possible to make "Script Lined Server as > Create To  > File" procedure automatically?

    I don't think so - unless there are some PowerShell cmdlets for SSMS that I'm not aware of.  That was why I made my second suggestion.  It's a bit of extra work, but you only have to do it once.

    John

    The power shell library "dbatools" contains a function to copy linked servers - see https://dbatools.io/functions/copy-dbalinkedserver/ for more info.

    Thomas Rushton
    blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com

  • Thank you all

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