Chapter 3. Managing the Surface Security, Access, and Network Configuration

To control access to your server, few things are more important than the configuration of Microsoft SQL Server’s services, components, and networking capabilities. Every SQL Server installation has a specific configuration for the services, components, and network, and the configuration determines security levels that control access in the surface area of the server such as

  • Who can access the server and by what means

  • What SQL Server services run automatically at startup or manually as needed

  • Where and by what means SQL Server components ...

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