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This video shows how configure SSRS report security using both default and custom roles
This demo shows how to: grant a user access to a report & folder, grant group access to a report & folder, create a custom role in SSRS, configure users to utilize the custom role and set different permissions for different folders in SSRS.
In this video Scott Golightly shows us the new SQL Audit feature of SQL Server 2008. Scott shows us how to set up a server audit using Transact SQL. He also shows us how to create a database audit using SQL Server Management Studio. Using SQL Audit you can audit different actions on your database to ensure compliance and protect valuable information.
In this video Scott Golightly shows us how to use the new policy based management features of SQL Server 2008 to manage our SQL Servers. Scott shows us how to use facets, create conditions, and create policies to manage our servers. The video demonstrates cases where the policy can automatically update your servers to ensure they are in compliance. Finally we look at the policies based on the best practices analyzer provided by Microsoft.
In this video Scott Golightly explores the SQL Server 2008 resource governor. The resource governor can help you allocate your CPU and memory effectively and ensure that rougue queries do not take over your server. Scott examines resource pools, resource groups, and the classifier function. Scott shows how to monitor the resource pools using performance monitor.
This video shows how to build a report using Visual Studio 2008 and then deploy it to SQL Server Reporting Services.
This demo shows how to: create report project in Visual Studio, create an shared data sources, how to design a report, how to add interactive sorting, change the project settings to deploy the report,deploy the report and run the report in SSRS.
In this video Glen (Software) Smith shows how to do backup and restore using the Central Administration website as well as using the STSADM command line tool.
In Windows Server 2008, the combination of a Server Core installation and the Read Only Domain Controller role is ideal for Branch office deployments, but what happens if you have bandwidth constraints and don't want to replicate all your AD data across the wire? Gordon Ryan will show you in this video how to use NTDSutil to create an install from media set ,an answer file to use with DCPROMO on the server core installation and then run dcpromo to promote the server core box.