SQL Server Policy-Based Management

Generate the List of All Available Facets and Their Properties

Our colleague Jens Suessmeyer in Germany has figured out how to generate the list of all facets and their properties. He has posted the list on his blog. Below is the code snippet from Jens: foreach ( FacetInfo info in PolicyStore .Facets) {     

Policy Evaluation Modes

I hosted a PBM break out session in Microsoft MVP Summit 2009 in March. One feedback I got is that the rules for what evaluation modes a policy support are obtuse. I thought that would be a good topic to cover in the blog. In PBM, users can specify the