A few issues:
1. If sa is disabled and you need to recover the instance for some reason, that will complicate things at a high pressure moment.
2. As many...

Just in case it helps...

If your are testing using SSMS remote and the login doesn't have enough permissions 'in windows on the SQL Server' then it will fail and...

For me this was inconsistent.

I have 2 2008 r2 clusters installed exactly the same way to subfolders. On one it works fine and on the other it doesn't. I...

I am not sure why this is thought of as a good idea. I have well over 100 sql instances and within sql server it is fairly efficient to manage...

Well evidently this issue still exists! LOL!

So far I see the same issue myself. It is a bit comical and sad that no one from Microsoft seems to be addressing it. You can look through their...

Sounds like you did a great job. And if they didn't agree, then they could have discussed it!

You made some of the points i was going to make.

In todays climate...

Thanks for sharing. It has potential. Perhaps also create the reverse to restore the records deleted as part of this. I know it is easy to just put them back...