What kind of permissions would need to be set for that?<BR><BR>The maintenance work I'm thinking of would be along the lines of backup/restore, database size management, etc. <BR><BR>No particular ...

Map to the C$ of your DHCP server and your backup file should be there. I don't think it will be on your local volume anyway. There is also the option to use Corefig for a Core instance.

add-type -AssemblyName "Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc, Version=12.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91" -ErrorAction Stop Note that I am running SQL Server 2014 so depending ...