You need to exclude the Extended Events from being copied. While SQL Server 2008 R2 did support XE it was very limited and SMO itself won't work against that version....

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The ability to script out all linked servers can be done now using dbatools PowerShell module.

Copy-DbaLinkedServer will let you migrate the linked server to another instance, and will...

If your requirements allow for the table to be the same name on your destination as it is on the source,  you can utilize the dbatools module to help make...

The only article that seems to mention ports being open on the firewall is when you are configuring firewall rules for Azure SQL. There is a note that shows

Being that Azure SQL is a PaaS service, no you do not have any control over the infrastructure side of that service...meaning port and all. You control access to a...

I'll assume you are referring to the time it takes to perform those restores using SSMS, since you mentioned setting the "device". Most of the time I see that taking...

You cannot read data from a URL path for an Excel file, it is not possible.

You can quickly and easily reset the "sa" account to regain access to a SQL Server instance using the "Reset-DbaAdmin" command from the PowerShell module dbatools.

You can clone an EC2 instance by making an AMI image of it. Then create another one based off it. There are some things that are not copied in that...