Forcing Steam to Recognize a Dedicated Server

[Ataros]

You can set the Servers (LAN) page as default in Steam settings. Steam can be set to start automatically with Windows or at certain time via Windows Task Scheduler. A program called AutoIt can be scripted to do it automatically too.

A mission within launcher can be started automatically via scripted telnet or .rcu (.srcu) file in IL-2 folder.

[ATAG_Bliss]

The way I got the server to be recognized is to just wait it out. I'm sure there are workarounds to get it to show up instantly, but it seems if you let your server run for a couple hours eventually it will show up on its own. And from that point forward it should show up every time you start it up. That's how it worked for me anyways.