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SQL Server DBA Event: Windows PowerShell Night

posted on September 10, 2010

16th September, 2010 – Microsoft Canada Ottawa Office
5:45pm

Session 1: Windows PowerShell for the SQL Server DBA (6:00PM – 7:00PM)

Presenter: Edwin Sarmiento

Windows PowerShell is becoming the scripting language of choice for managing Microsoft servers and workstations. And while T-SQL is still the scripting language for DBAs to administer and manage SQL Server, there are tons of stuff that can be easily done with Windows PowerShell.

In this session, learn Windows PowerShell from the ground up and how you can use it with SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) to administer and manage a SQL Server instance


Session 2: Your SQL Server DBA PowerShell Scriptbox (7:15PM to 8:15PM)

Presenter: Edwin Sarmiento

Do your day-to-day tasks with Windows PowerShell. And while Windows PowerShell is not intended to replace T-SQL, see how a multi-line T-SQL script can be translated in a one-liner code in Windows PowerShell. In this session, you will see how to use Windows PowerShell to perform tasks such as run SQL Server audits, check for SQL Server Agent job and backup status, generate backups and many more.

Edwin Sarmiento works as a Senior SQL Server DBA/Windows Engineer for Pythian in Ottawa, ON in Canada. Prior to joining Pythian, he was a senior systems engineer/DBA for Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore and is responsible for maintaining 200+ servers and databases for a global client in 10 countries.  He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, professional and organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with databases.  He lives up to his primary mission statement – "To help people grow and develop their full potential as God has planned for them"
He wants the whole world to know that the FILIPINO is a world-class citizen and brings JESUS CHRIST to the world.

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Filed Under: User Groups Tagged With: Powershell, SQL Server

Driver Management in MDT 2010

posted on August 9, 2010

If you manage drivers in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, you know it can get unwieldy to manage all the drivers in one big folder. I had done it that way for quite a while as I only had 3 or 4 builds of computers that I managed from MDT. These days though I manage about 10 different kinds of computers covering netbooks, laptops, desktops and servers.  I needed a way to be able to figure out which driver was for which computer. I had used folders to manage this and it seemed to work okay. Put all the Dell drivers in one folder, put HP into another folder. I never encountered any problems doing this. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Deployment Tagged With: Deployment, drivers, MDT, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1 Released

posted on July 8, 2010

I received an email yesterday letting me know that Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 has been released.

Check out the Springboard Series Blog for information on the new features. Highlights for me are:

  • support for Microsoft Office 2010
  • improved driver importing
  • cosmetic changes to the UI

Support for Office 2010 is pretty simple; there is no need to explain. The improved driver importing is something I found helpful in my environment. What MDT does now is check the drivers and see what platforms they support rather rely on what the drivers say they support. The benefit of this is that you will have less deployment problems. I have imported drivers that stated they were 64 bit. MDT checked them and said (rough translation):

“Even though ACME Corp says they are 64 bit, these are 32 bit.”

It’s nice to have the deployment environment checking that for you.

The other change is the update to the environment. Gone is the guy helping the lady with the computer.Now we just have a basic blue screen, throughout the prompts. Of course, you can change the picture and make it whatever you want.

Looking for the download, go to the MDT Download Center page.

Filed Under: Deployment Tagged With: Deployment, MDT 2010

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