thejamie wrote:
> My administrator doesn't like seeing the list of instances of MSDE
> when he opens his Enterprise Manager. Since the instances I install
> all have network protocols disabled, there is really no need to see
> them there. Does anyone know if there is a method available to hide
> the instance from the list of servers on the network (assuming the
> network protocols are disabled)?

"Andrea Montanari" <andrea.sqlDMO@virgilio.it> wrote in message
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> hi,
> thejamie wrote:
>> My administrator doesn't like seeing the list of instances of MSDE
>> when he opens his Enterprise Manager. Since the instances I install
>> all have network protocols disabled, there is really no need to see
>> them there. Does anyone know if there is a method available to hide
>> the instance from the list of servers on the network (assuming the
>> network protocols are disabled)?
>
> remove the registered instances from the EM group..
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
> http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtm http://italy.mvps.org
> DbaMgr2k ver 0.11.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.57.0
> (my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
> interface)
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