One of the standard configuration options that I set on all SQL Server installs is to log Failed Login Attempts to the SQL Server Error Log.  I recently inherited an environment that this option wasn’t standardized across all of the servers and needed to configure it for multiple servers in a scripted manner.  There are a couple of ways ...

Paul Randal recently blogged about Using diskpart and wmic to check disk partition alignment.  Lately, I have been writing A LOT of Powershell scripts at my new job, primarily because the size of the environment makes it next to impossible to work through all of the servers one at a time, so automating the work with Powershell has made things ...