Northern DPAC | Install & Configure SQL Server with PowerShell DSC

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18:00 - 19:00 - Jess Pomfret | Install & Configure SQL Server with PowerShell DSC

Install & Configure SQL Server with PowerShell DSC
Get on the cutting edge by implementing infrastructure as code for your SQL Server environment. Using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) we'll look at how to take a newly built Windows Server and get it ready for prime time while discussing the benefits associated with infrastructure as code.

• Setup Pre-Requisites
• Install SQL Server
• Configure SQL Server
• Make SQL Server Application Ready

Jess Pomfret is a SQL Server Database Engineer and a Microsoft MVP. She started working with SQL Server in 2011, and enjoys the problem-solving aspects of performance tuning and automating processes with PowerShell.

She also enjoys contributing to dbatools and dbachecks, two open source PowerShell modules that aid DBAs with automating the management of SQL Server instances. She has also contributed to the SqlServerDsc module, adding several new resources to use when configuring your SQL Servers.

She grew up in the South West of England and outside of her DBA life enjoys CrossFit, cycling and watching proper football.