Automate CNOs and VCOs for SQL Server AAG
During the installation of a new SQL Server environment in a Project, we wanted to automate the whole process deployment and configuration when installing a new SQL Server Always On Availability Group...
View ArticleAutomate restore from Rubrik with PowerShell
One of our customer uses Rubrik as a solution to recover, manage, and secure all their data. In this context, Rubrik is used to backup and restore all the SQL Server instances. We need to run restore...
View ArticleAutomate restore from Rubrik with PowerShell (part 2)
As promised during my last Rubrik blog post I’m writing a second one to explain how to: log your different steps in a file add an integrity check after the restore and also improve my first scripting I...
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Pass Summit 2017
Today starts the Pass Summit 2017 taking place in Seattle. After a small fly over the Ocean, more than 10 hours… yesterday, and a nice jet lag which avoid me to sleep later than 4AM this morning, I...
View ArticleHow To Deploy Office Web Apps Server 2013
The 4 Steps Of Office Web Apps Server 2013 Installation Office Web Apps provides browser-based versions of Excel, One Note, Word and PowerPoint. It also helps users who access files through SharePoint...
View ArticleSQL Server – Collecting last backup information in an AlwaysOn environment
Introduction Sometimes you face interesting challenges with unusual environment. One of my customer needed a automated and flexible backup solution. Said like that nothing very complex you will say....
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Restore S3 Object with AWSPOWERSHELL
AWS S3 offers different Storage Classes, allowing to optimize cost among others. For instance, some classes are used for archiving purposes: S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive. It means the storage...
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How to run Avamar backup on SQL Agent Job with PowerShell
By one of our customer we use Avamar for the backup and restore solution. I was asked by this customer to find a solution to run Avamar backups for a group of databases on a specified instance. In...
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Publishing a PowerShell script to AWS Lambda
I’ve done some Lambda functions with Python in the past and it was quite easy to publish that to Lambda (by just uploading a zip file with all my code and dependencies). You might ask yourself why I...
View ArticleAutomate CNOs and VCOs for SQL Server AAG
During the installation of a new SQL Server environment in a Project, we wanted to automate the whole process deployment and configuration when installing a new SQL Server Always On Availability Group...
View ArticleAutomate restore from Rubrik with PowerShell
One of our customer uses Rubrik as a solution to recover, manage, and secure all their data. In this context, Rubrik is used to backup and restore all the SQL Server instances. We need to run restore...
View ArticleAutomate restore from Rubrik with PowerShell (part 2)
As promised during my last Rubrik blog post I’m writing a second one to explain how to: log your different steps in a file add an integrity check after the restore and also improve my first scripting I...
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Patch a SQL Server instance automatically with PowerShell
In my last blog post I explained how to automatically download the last Service Pack and Cumulative Update for all versions of SQL Server.Here I will show you how to patch your SQL Server instances...
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Installing Azure AZ Module on Windows
Since Azure (or AzureRM) module is marked as deprecated some years ago, AZ module is the official replacement to manage Azure resources with PowerShell. This module is running with at least PowerShell...
View ArticleMove secondary database files in SQL Server AG with PowerShell
For some circumstances, you may want to move data and log files for a database to a different location.Usually, this operation has to be made offline. But with an Availability Group (AG) environment,...
View ArticleMove SQL Server database files to different folders with PowerShell
In my previous post, I explained how to move SQL Server databases files programmatically by leveraging the high availability of an Availability Group (AG).But when you can afford to have a database...
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Make SQL Server services more secure with Managed Service Accounts
In the past years, I actively have been involved in securing MSSQL Instances (and other services).This lead me to use the Managed Service Accounts (MSA) and the grouped Managed Service Accounts...
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Starting with PowerShell 7 and parallelization
For the time being Windows PowerShell 5.1 is installed with Windows Server. It means that if you want to use or even test PowerShell 7 you need to install it by your own.To be honest, even if I’m...
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