Skip skip skip all the preamble junk…
My work, amongst many other things, involves managing a small herd of Microsoft SQL servers and a series of small web-apps. When I work from home, from my non-domain-joined machine, I want to be able to run the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). I could RDP (or whatever) in to a machine on the domain, but it feels neater to just run it from the local PC where I’m working.
I’d tried this before, but because of two (or maybe one and a half) little hurdles and bits of weirdness, I couldn’t get it going until today.
The half hurdle is that the executable for SSMS is a lot like smss.exe. But very different. Don’t try to launch smss.exe this way.
The full hurdle is what stumped me for longest. When SSMS starts, it will still show your local computer/domain name and local username in the login section. This is ok. Just connect anyway.
SSMS 17 (and maybe earlier versions) adds the path to the executable to the PATH environmental variable, so you don’t need to worry about including the whole path to the executable when you run the command I’m about to show.
Just get on with it…less jibber-jabber.
Here’s the deal.
Create a shortcut pointing to the following:
runas /netonly /user:domain\username ssms
You’ll be promted for your password when it starts.