I have checked the data for the change and it all is in the format described
First names that are more than one name are separated by a hyphen.
So...

In the version of powershell2.0 $Host.version also works

It returns:

Major Minor Build Revision

----- ----- ----- --------

2 0 ...

Thanks all for your help.

I retrieved the A password using Igor's the following URL:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj853293.aspx

Which was also posted above.

I will test some of you suggestions on Friday as this is a production SQL Server

and it needs to be schedule to bring offline.

Thanks again

Thanks for your quick reply.

I will investigate and reply back.