
Learn how to install and import the PS Windows Update module to manage Windows updates from PowerShell, including handling dependencies like dbatools and verifying available commandlets.
Explore how PowerShell DSC defines and enforces the desired state of Windows systems using configuration scripts and resources, with a pool server and Local Configuration Manager ensuring consistency.
Learn to create multiple databases across two SQL servers using a single PowerShell cmdlet, and configure secondary file size, secondary file growth, log size, and log growth to 20 MB.
Learn to create a SQL database with multiple parameters using a PowerShell commandlet, passing server name, database name, log and data file sizes and growth, and suffixes.
Learn to remove databases on SQL Server instances using PowerShell by targeting VM1 and VM2 and supplying the database names. Verify deletions by refreshing the instances so no databases remain.
Copy a database from one SQL Server instance to another using the copy-dba-database commandlet with backup restore, setting a shared path and validating the copy on VM two.
Learn to restore SQL Server databases with dbatools by modifying backup metadata, replacing database names and file paths, and executing advanced restore with restored data directories and standby options.
Learn to create SQL server logins with PowerShell across multiple servers, secure passwords with secure strings, and add Active Directory logins such as lab/business analyst, lab/developers, and lab/db architects.
Execute the find db login group commandlet to list members of Active Directory groups linked to your SQL server, providing quick visibility for DBAs.
Discover how to remove logins across SQL Server instances with the remove hyphen db login cmdlet, force removal when active sessions exist, and manage users, AD groups, and server roles.
Read and export sql server error logs with powershell using the db log sql instance cmdlet, filtering by text, date, source, and log number for troubleshooting and monitoring.
Automate SQL Server replication across two servers by scripting replication, dropping before daily restores, restoring from production, and recreating replication with PowerShell.
Explore how the export db rep server setting commandlet exports replication configurations to a SQL file and how script options separate publisher, distributor, and subscriber scripts.
Automate SQL Server replication with PowerShell by scripting creation and dropping of publications, subscriptions, and subscribers, exporting scripts, and recreating replication across primary and secondary databases.
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