If you have followed this blog, you have probably seen a series of posts documenting the life of a project I’ve been working on, Atlanta, to a product called System Center Advisor . Today marks the official release of that product. This has been a particularly rewarding journey for me to see an idea...

When I last told you my story of installing System Center Advisor, I had seen some new alerts for a database I had created on this server called mavstothefinals (hey Lakers and Spurs lose in the first round and Mavs are up 2-0. It could happen…). I had received an email about new alerts for this database...

The last time I left you with my adventures with System Center Advisor I was at the SeaTac airport checking out my alert dashboard before I jumped on to my plane back to Texas. And now that I’m back in the sunny skies of the Lone Star State (sorry Seattle I love travelling there but for a Texas boy there...

I’ve been in Seattle this week at an internal Microsoft conference so haven’t had time to check back on what other things System Center Advisor found out about my server from last week. I've got a few minutes before I catch a plan back to Texas so while here at SeaTac airport I thought I would just pop...

Yesterday I posted that System Center Advisor had found several alerts for me to look at the day after I installed it: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2011/03/24/system-center-advisor-the-next-day.aspx We focused on the top 2 “Error” alerts which were recommended Windows updates. I decided to...

Yesterday I created a blog post on the Release Candidate launch of System Center Advisor: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2011/03/22/atlanta-becomes-a-product-system-center-advisor.aspx At the end of that post, I told you the gateway had successfully registered my server but I had not seen any...

Last November I was part of an exciting launch at the SQL PASS conference of the beta of a project called Atlanta (see my original post on this topic at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2010/11/12/microsoft-atlanta-begins.aspx ) I’m excited to tell you that what started as an idea several years...