The other day I was looking for a way to import a long list of SQL Server 2005 servers into SSMS on my workstation. As I was looking around I was thinking Microsoft had to include a way to import a list of servers into SSMS. My problem was in my SSMS I did not have “Registered Servers” selected from the “View” menu… I was only showing the “Object Explorer”. So after selecting “Registered Servers” from the “View” menu I was able to now view Registered Servers in SSMS.
To import servers into SSMS you do the following:
1. Under Registered Servers right click on “Database Engine” and select “Import…”
2. The “Import Registered Servers” dialog will appear and select the ellipses button
3. Navigate to the location where you have the .regsrvr file
4. If you have multiple Server Groups select the group that you want to import the servers into and click “OK”
5. The “Import Registered Servers” dialog appears letting you know that “The import was successful”
You will now see your servers from the list in the Registered Servers in SSMS. One important thing to note here… the import file must be a file that was created from exporting a list of SQL Servers from SSMS. If you manually create a list of servers and saved it as a text file the import will fail.
I hope you find this helpful. If you know of another way to successfully import a list of servers into SSMS let us know!
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