Create the perfect morning checks report with dbatools with Jess Pomfret
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Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham
Thursday 2nd April 2026 at 13:00 GMT
Session Title: Create the perfect morning checks report with dbatools
Speaker: Jess Pomfret
Session Abstract:
There are often a few things we like to check on every morning with our first cup of coffee, tea, or juice. Depending on your role, this list may be different – but with this session, I’ll teach you how to automate a list of checks and have them automatically delivered to your inbox every day.
In this session, I will show you my standard morning checks as a DBA, checking for the following using dbatools.
- Any databases missing backups?
- Any jobs (or job steps) that have failed overnight?
- Any worrying messages in the error log?
- Any disks about to run out of space?
- And many more…
I’ll then generate a beautiful HTML email and status page that shows you the results and highlights any issues that you should work on first.
This session will give you the structure needed to check anything that you can write a script for; the possibilities are as wide as your imagination.
Join me as we automate our morning checklists.
#### Additional notes
Agenda:
12.45 - 13:00 : Speaker Setup and Join
13:00 - 13:05 : Open Lobby to guests and Introductions
13:05 - 14:00 : Create the perfect morning checks report with dbatools
Venue: Wherever you have access to a computer or smart device!
This session will be online only!
Other Details:
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