Jonathan Medd Active Directory Management with PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 R2 One of the first things you notice with Windows Server 2008 R2 is that PowerShell 2.0 has become central to... 19 November 2009 15 min read
William Brewer Calling Stored Procedures from .NET Applications Everybody knows how to call stored procedures from a .NET application. Right? But then, how often do you see stored... 11 September 2009 18 min read
Timothy Wiseman Python for the SQL Server DBA Python is increasingly used by DBAs as a general-purpose scripting language, despite the pressure to adopt Microsoft's PowerShell. They find... 27 August 2009 8 min read
Ben Lye Emulating the Exchange 2003 RUS for Out-of-Band Mailbox Provisioning in Exchange 2007 Exchange's Recipient Update Service was important in Exchange 2000 or 2003 in order to complete the provisioning or updating of... 08 May 2009 5 min read
Ben Lye Message Tracking in Exchange 2007 'Where did my mail go?' In order to answer this question, to troubleshoot mail problems and to analyse mail flow,... 27 March 2009 9 min read
Allen White Let PowerShell do an Inventory of your Servers If you run a regular and comprehensive inventory of all the servers you manage, you can solve problems more quickly... 13 February 2009 15 min read
Robert Sheldon Using Powershell to Generate Table-Creation Scripts For all of us who learn best by trying out examples, Bob Sheldon produces a PowerShell script file for SQL... 04 October 2008 19 min read
Ron Dameron Why This SQL Server DBA is Learning Powershell Ron describes how he decided to study Powershell as a single scripting system to automate all the common repetitive server... 30 September 2008 18 min read
Ron Dameron Comparing Python and PowerShell DBA Scripting Just when it seemed that there were were no adequate scripting systems for DBAs that could access .NET, along came... 03 August 2007 11 min read
Francis Norton Implementing Real-World Data Input Validation using Regular Expressions Francis Norton shows how to use regular expressions to fulfil some real world data validation requirements, demonstrating techniques ranging from... 14 May 2007 12 min read
Dan Sullivan Managing SQL Server using PowerSMO Most DBAs don't have time to perform routine processes manually. Everything has to be scripted, automated and scheduled. Here, Dan... 31 January 2007 22 min read
