Microsoft’s Active Directory has enabled Group Policy since Windows 2000. Policies can be set once then applied continually to hundreds or even thousands of machines within a network enabling central ...

Last time we discussed creating a script that can retrieve configuration settings from a list of SQL Servers and placing that data into a SQL Server table. Now, let's take a look at another technology ...

It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago that my company’s IT department was bracing for a major new line of work. Back in the mid 1990s, we were going full steam into client-server technology. At ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals. Here ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

The Group Policy Management Console -- also known as the GPMC or Group Policy Management Editor -- is used to configure permissions and settings in Windows Server 2008. It is one of the easiest ways ...

The latest version has reached general availability a few months after the release of v18.4. It brings a bunch of new features and general bug fixes, along with more specific improvements. In November ...