1. Policy Based Management: Introduction & implementation
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Ryan Brickey

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3. Who is this guy? Ryan Brickey Networking SQL Saturday speaker
MCITP: SQL Server Database Administrator 2008 (since 2012)
Wells Fargo: Database Analyst (2013 – present)
SQL Sentry: Software Support Engineer (2010 – 2013)
Living Well Health Solutions: Data Analyst (2007 – 2010)
Networking
SQLBrickey
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4. What are we going to look at
What is Policy-Based Management
Benefits and Return
Terms and Concepts
Architecture
DEMO
Recap / Questions
Resources
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5. Policy-Based Management
What is Policy-Based Management?
Ability to evaluate policies (rules) against SQL Server instance(s) in an environment
When was it introduced?
SQL Server 2008
Can be created via GUI / T-SQL
Who’s currently using Policy-Based Management?
Who’s never heard of Policy-Based Management?

6. Benefits and Return On Investment
Compliance / Audit Prep
Consistent Implementation
Removes tribal knowledge
Cost / Time
Bonus / Raise

7. Key Terms & Concepts Components to Policy-Based Management
Policy Management: Policy Admins
Explicit Administration: Aligning policies with targets
Evaluation modes: On Demand
On Schedule
On Change: Prevent – DDL events ONLY
On Change: Log only – DDL events ONLY
Managed Target: SQL Server instance or object subject to be evaluated against a policy
Facet: Set of logical properties
Condition: Expression that sets a facet value
Policy: Evaluates a condition
On Demand > ad-hoc / On Schedule > agent job / On Change: Prevent > DDL trigger / On Change: Log > Event Notifications
Policy must include: name / target / facet / condition / eval mode

8. Architecture/Implementation
Locally Managed Policies vs. Central Management Server
Locally Managed Policies
On Schedule
On Change – Prevent
On Change - Log only
Central Management Server (CMS)
On Demand
Leverages registered servers
Run against registered server groups
Central location for updates
Demo

9. Potential policies Auto Shrink Disabled Authentication Mode
SQL Password Expiration
SQL Password Policy
Guest Permissions
Last Backup Time
Auto Grow
Auto Create Statistics
Auto Update Statistics
Enforce Naming Convention
Database Compatibility Level
Recovery Model
Database Encryption
Is Trustworthy Option
Login Auditing
Database Mail Enabled
SQLMail Disabled
Extended Stored Procedures Disabled
Backup Compression
SQL Server Agent is running
Agent jobs have notification on failure
Monitor SQL Agent Jobs
Transaction Log Backups for Full and Bulk-Logged

10. Links/Scripts Books Online:
Jens Suessmeyer
Colin Stasuik:
Author: Pro SQL Server Policy Based Management
Ryan Adams
Policy-Based Management White Paper (
CMS White Paper (

11. Thank you & Please complete a survey
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