>If you set up a bunch of database servers (SQL Server) in a virtual environment, on each of them, when you access them with Terminal Server, we are confronted with the "Microsoft Notification prompt which asks if we want to participate in the customer user experience program". By curiosity, is there really someone who participated in that before. And, if yes, once you do, do you really do that for all server installations you are doing? :)
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>Just thought I would mention it in case someone from the SQL Server team sees this message. I would surely vote to remove that from there and put it elsewhere, if it uses sometimes.
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>When you have to configure dozen of servers, it is somewhat a waste of time on each of them. Then, we have to apply the proper procedures in the buildbook on how to disable it.

OTOH, just like any other statistics, this program is best at measuring what it measures and staying ignorant at what it doesn't.

It would never measure me, for instance, because I use Toad instead. SSMS is so limited it's sometimes near useless. The code it generates frequently needs editing before it can run. Its error messages are sometimes misleading, sometimes just plain wrong. Today I had a case when a change of a field from decimal(14,1) to decimal(14,2) was refused, as it would require rebuilding the table. However, "alter table blabla alter column dcolxx decimal(14,2) null" passes without any messages from SQL. Ah, and, BTW, for those changes which really do require rebuilding the table, Toad generates the whole script which builds the temp table, inserts from the original table into it, drops the original table, renames temp to original, which SSMS never offered (that I remember - maybe recent versions can do that).