I’ve never been a fan of the SQL Server 2005 Integration Services task for transferring logins between servers. It seems that I always misconfigure it or something gets missed. And when I just want to move a single login its more effort to setup the task than it is worth. What I’m really saying here is I’m not a fan of the task and I don’t plan to get "gooder" at using it.
Especially when there is a much better alternative… scipting the login with the password. The link has a script that creates a couple stored procedures that, when executed, provides either a single or all logins with their properties.
The output script looks something like this:
— Login: ExistingUser
CREATE LOGIN [ExistingUser]
WITH PASSWORD = 0x0100DE1894107F53A6ABF5436BA4F2A6BFFC0C51C156760E70F2 HASHED,
SID = 0xDA25EBDBF88087D98B65D94B1DF3155B,
DEFAULT_DATABASE = [master],
CHECK_POLICY = OFF,
CHECK_EXPIRATION = OFF
Very useful indeed…
Strate SQL 