Can't find SQL Server Configuration Manager in the Windows Start Menu

You may have noticed, like I did, that searching for "SQL Server Configuration Manager" in the Windows Start Menu returns no local results. There is no familiar SQL Server Configuration Manager in the Start Menu any more. Searching for "Configuration" returns other local configuration programs, such as MDS Configuration Manager and SSRS Configuration Manager, but not SQL Server Configuration Manager.

SQL Server Configuration Manager is still right where it belongs, in C:\Windows\SysWOW64. 

A workaround solution is basic. When you find it in Explorer, right-click and "pin to start". Then you will be able to search for it as "sqlserverManager1x". Now it will appear in the Desktop category of the Start Menu.

Microsoft Docs now includes this text to remedy this problem and an explainer on how to find SQL Server Configuration Manager for each version of SQL Server.

"SQL Server: Bolts to Buzzwords" presentation for the Hammond .NET User Group at Southeastern Louisiana University

One of my favorite groups to speak for (aside from the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group) is the Hammond .NET User Group at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, LA. A mostly undergraduate crowd of enthusiastic future developers (and perhaps some developers-turned-DBAs, like myself) make for a fun audience that asks great questions.

Here's my slidedeck for an introductory presentation on databases and SQL Server, perfect for a college crowd, most of which hadn't completed a capstone project requiring a database solution. In fact, the first line of the slidedeck details the highly important lesson of how to pronounce "SQL" - as in, "sequel" NOT "ess kew el".

Here's the download link for the PowerPoint slidedeck