Microsoft is aware of this issue. I believe it is too early for that. We have noticed that the instance will not stay hidden. It reappears after awhile and the only way to hide it again is to restart the sql browser service but again it is only temporary. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. But there are many cases, particularly in production environments, where you want to hide your instance of SQL Server or in other words, where you do not want SQL Server to broadcast its presence.
Hiding an instance is done for security purposes. Unfortunately, the option to disable the broadcast is hidden away. But you can easily do so by following the below mentioned steps:. Because the machine name alredy tells you that there is something DB related on it. Hi KaziArifulHaq ,. If you hide a named instance, you will need to provide the port number in the connection string to connect to the hidden instance, even if the browser service is running.
We recommend that you use a static port instead of a dynamic port for the named hidden instance. If you hide a clustered instance or availability group name, cluster service may not be able to connect to SQL Server.
To avoid this, create an alias in all the nodes of the clustered instance or all instances that host availability group replicas to reflect the static port that you configured for the instance. If the response is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and upvote it. Hot issues October-- Users always get connection timeout problem when using multi subnet AG via listener. Especially after failover to another subnet.
Any update for this thread? If I want to hide this information from people on my network, it can be done easily.
SQL Server allows us to hide an instance from being listed on the network. Set " Hide Instance " value to " Yes " from the drop-down list:. Once the instance is restarted it will not longer appear in the " Network Servers " list:. Below T-SQL will hide the instance.
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