How to transfer cached SQL Server names in SSMS between machines

• by Michael Gombasy
• September 05, 2017

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has a helpful feature that remembers that last 15 SQL server instances to which you’ve connected, displaying them in a dropdown list within the Connect to Server window. This eliminating the need to remember or track the often-times complex server names we use on a daily basis.

But when it comes time to upgrade to a new machines - or worse, you are forced to wipe your system and reinstall everything - that list of servers disappears!

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