SQL Server Policy-Based Management

This blog is dedicated to Policy-Based Management introduced in SQL Server 2008

Last week, Shaun Stuart posted some questions on his blog about PBM "strangeness". He was wondering...

Date: 08/13/2010

Hi, If you rename your computer, then "check on schedule policies" won't work because the old...

Date: 08/02/2010

Hi, We ship these two Best Practices policies Place Data and Log Files on Separate Drives Backup...

Date: 08/02/2010

Our colleague Jens Suessmeyer in Germany has figured out how to generate the list of all facets and...

Date: 04/20/2009

I hosted a PBM break out session in Microsoft MVP Summit 2009 in March. One feedback I got is that...

Date: 04/13/2009

Bart Duncan (a dev on the manageability team and one of the masterminds behind the Management Data...

Date: 09/11/2008

SQL Server 2008 includes several predefined policies. These are generally associated with best...

Date: 07/15/2008

Policy categories have two purposes in SQL2K8: 1) organization of policies and 2) policy scope. In...

Date: 07/07/2008

You may notice I've changed the blog format from narrow to wide. I think this makes it more readable...

Date: 07/06/2008

We get this question a lot: can I use PBM against a SQL2K & SQL2K5 instances. The quick answer...

Date: 07/04/2008

One of the key development tenets of Policy-Based Management was to raise the level of abstraction...

Date: 07/03/2008

Another PBM Blog (APBMB)! Lara Rubbelke has been blogging a bunch about PBM. Check out her blog...

Date: 06/18/2008

Sethu Srinivasan, a developer on the PBM team, wrote a blog post for a sample PowerShell script that...

Date: 06/18/2008

@ TechEd SQL Server MVP Peter DeBetta and I presented a session where we created a PowerShell script...

Date: 06/14/2008

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition) defines facet as: One of...

Date: 05/24/2008

In the previous posting we introduced the main PBM concepts through the use of a sample policy: All...

Date: 04/26/2008

This posting provides an overview of Policy-Based Management (PBM). You can read more about PBM in...

Date: 04/20/2008

Well hello there and welcome to the SQL Server blog devoted to Policy-Based Management - PBM. PBM, a...

Date: 04/08/2008