**Note: This is the last of my series on dbatools.io and upon publishing it I discovered that dbatools is changing their prefix to be Verb-DBAnoun. Read about it here ** In the series on dbatools module (https://dbatools.io) we at are going to look next at the Copy-SqlLinkedServer

Something that may not be as widely used by some organizations, but was widely used on one of my servers are linked servers. These are usually a work around for some other Oracle DB or even a means of connecting to a reporting data source. These connections can be complicated as they sometimes have local credentials stored in the connection and have no means of retrieving the password. By using this command in the following way you may copy the linked server to another SQL instance with ease.

Copy-SQLLinkedServer -Source SQL2012 -Destination SQL2016 -LinkedServer OracleDB2

Any settings that you need for the linked server (RPC OUT, Data Access, etc) should be turned on before moving the linked server with this method as it only copies the name and login (if present) and inherits all other settings from the destination instance.