Tutorial: Administering Servers by Using Policy-Based Management

Welcome to the Administering Servers by Using Policy-Based Management Policies tutorial. This tutorial is intended for users who are familiar with SQL Server but new to the Policy-Based Management.

What You Will Learn

This tutorial creates a policy to administer your server and a policy that applies to a single database. One policy is run on demand to test for compliance. The other policy enforces future compliance.

This tutorial is divided into two lessons:

Requirements

This lesson requires basic database knowledge and a basic understanding of SQL Server Management Studio.

To use this tutorial, your system must have SQL Server Management Studio installed.

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