Evaluate your daily checklist against 100+ instances with PBM and CMS

The following are the reference material and videos created for the PASS Member Summit 2011.

Videos

• PASS Summit 2011 – Evaluate Daily Checklist against 1000+ Servers 
• Proactive SQL Server Monitoring with Central Management Server
• How do I? Policy-based Management
• Policy Based Management: A brief walk through

Policy-Based Management Examples

• Policy-Based Management Myths (The Series)
• Using SQL Server 2008 PBM to Monitor Free Disk Space
• SQL Server Policy Based Management and PowerShell

Central Management Examples

• Configure your first Central Management Server
• Automate the validation of a Daily Full backups with Powershell, CMS and T-SQL

Enterprise Policy Management Framework

http://epmframework.codeplex.com/

White Papers

• Administering Servers by Using Policy-Based Management
• Enterprise Policy Management Framework with SQL Server 2008
• SQL Server 2008 Policy-Based Management

Book

• Pro SQL Server 2008 Policy-Based Management (Expert’s Voice in SQL Server)

Web

• mssqltips – Policy-Based Management
• Central Management Servers, have you seen these? – Kimberly Tripp
• Central Management Server on SQLServerPedia – Brent Ozar
• SQL Server Policy Based Management blog

Policies

• Validate SQL Server Backups Exist with Policy Based Management – Thomas LaRock (blog | @SQLRockstar)