This weekend I discovered a minor issue in one of my virtual environments. I had built out 100 VMs based on a Hyper-V template, but I forgot to activate the original source before creating the template, so all of the machines were suddenly out of compliance. While easy enough on a one- or two-machine basis to just log into the machine and activate ...

  This month's installment of T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Pat Wright (blog | twitter). Pat says: ''So the topic I have chosen for this month is Automation! It can be Automation with T-SQL or with Powershell or a mix of both. Give us your best tips/tricks and ideas for making our lives easier through Automation.'' In a recent project, ...

I am working on a project where I am using PowerShell to collect a lot of performance counters from a lot of servers.  More on that later.  For now I wanted to highlight an important lesson I learned when trying to use Start-Job to call a PS script using -ScriptBlock and passing in parameters.  This could be a comedy of errors if ...