I think PEN testing is very important, but it needs to be coupled with social engineering attacks and training/education to be truly effective.

Over lunch I was listening to an NPR...

Eric M Russell (5/26/2015)

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Wayne West (5/25/2015)

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Ross McMicken (5/25/2015)

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GPO (5/23/2015)

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Of course all of this assumes your DBA or sysadmin is beyond reproach. I worked as a bank clerk many years before...

Jeff Moden (5/25/2015)

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By the same token, I've seen people use PowerShell inappropriately (think "Hammer") for things that SQL Server can easily do... just like we've seen abuse with SQL CLR,...

There was an editorial just a week ago on scripting, and lots of people talked about PowerShell and other methods of doing things. I've used Perl for monitoring several...

Ross McMicken (5/25/2015)

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GPO (5/23/2015)

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Of course all of this assumes your DBA or sysadmin is beyond reproach. I worked as a bank clerk many years before I'd ever heard of SQL...

You could lock some sysadmin functions by requiring a password split in half and known to two people so that both must be present to unlock it, each person entering...

There's also the nine part Powershell Stairway series here.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/91327/

If you're creating a standalone cloud-based server, would it also need Exchange running on it to have everything supported?

Eric M Russell (5/21/2015)

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Executive managment has requested that available MB disk storage (zero padded to 10 digits) be appended to the end of all server names. You know... as a...

A good source for PoSH scripts is the Hey, Scripting Guy! blog[/url]. He has several scripts in his archives for SQL Server use, I haven't had time to look...

Missing a bullwhip and fedora.

My chocolate is in my desk, normally at least three kinds. Never on display.

The problem with Comcast et al is a lack of competition. Americans pay the most for internet and cell service and get some of the poorest service levels in...

Thanks, Bill, definitely food for thought.

Tom, I'd suggest that you check out Brent Ozar's First Aid sp's. They pack a lot of information that tells you a lot about what's odd about your system.

http://www.brentozar.com/first-aid/

jay-h (4/30/2015)

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Charles Kincaid (4/29/2015)

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I walked into the ST (Science and Technology) building at the local community college only to find that the bottom floor was numbered zero. 😎 ...