23rd August 2021

Fixed bug where custom tests left an empty DbcResult #846 Added feature to overwrite config file if it already exists for Export-DbcConfig #844 Enabled ping latency testing in PowerShell Core

Latest

23rd August 2021

Removed the Verbose for the Pester load - Apologies, this was Rob! Thank you @MikeyBronowski Get the file at the end so Export-DbcConfig can be used with Invoke-Item addresses #843 #845 Thank you @MikeyBronowski spelling and full stops #842 Thank you ashdar Check for existence in the Tag list before adding a Tag to the Tag list #853 Thank you ashdar Updated PowerPlan Assertion #850 Thank you tboggiano CIS check for SQL Mail XPS for SQL Server 2008 and below (was) #779 Thank you tboggiano Added function to set CIS config (was) #776 Thank you tboggiano CIS check for TCP IP Protocols (was) #775

April 7th 2021

Thank you @mikedavem Fixed rogue verbose when importing #834

Thank you @mikedavem Test NetBios Over TCP/IP should be disabled for cluster network interface #833

Thank you @conseilit Add LogfilePercentUsed check. Log might fill even if simple recovery model or full recovery model + Tlog backup in case of replication, CDC, HADR issues. #831 #832

Thank you @conseilit Getting SQL Server instance DateTime prevent Log Backup checks to fail if the instance is not in the same timezone than the computer running dbaChecks scripts. #830

Thank you @MikeyBronowski Get-DbcConfig Adding support to multiple names #829

Thank you @MikeyBronowski Spellings #827

Thank you @TheAntGreen updated variables to make errors obvious #825

Thank you @MrBlueSky - add info to suggest using Duplicate index command #807

Thank you @PsPsam - Ping check to work on core and 5.1 #763

Thank you @zikato - certificate expiration gives two failures if in the past #785

Thank you @mikedavem - allow more than 99 days for retention for Olas jobs #835

Thank you @Shashtsoh - Remove aliases to work in core #837

Thank you @a4ic6n - Max Memory check false succeeds #836

December 14th 2020

Thank you tboggiano Browser check altered for instance count #758 Thank you zikato - Fixing datafile auto growth #786 Thank you fatherjack Typos #767 Thank you tboggiano Query Store enabled and disabled test improvements #791 Thank you relsna fixed issue with error log window #814 Thank you @TheAntGreen Typos #815 Thank you @TheAntGreen Add additional filter to filter out negative run_durations #816 Thank you @TheAntGreen Add policy for additional excluded dbs from the SAFE CLR check #817 Thank you @MikeyBronowski Fix the check for enabled alerts #819 Thank you @MikeyBronowski Updating the link in documentation #820 Thank you @mikedavem Updated HADR checks with additional checks #822 Thank you @mikedavem Database backup diff check - fix issue #812 #824

Date November 23rd 2020

Finally Rob gets around to working on PRs - Really sorry it has taken so long

Fixes for bug 780 & 783 #784 - Thank you @TheAntGreen Fix local windows groups, additional filter needed on the object filter #789 - Thank you @TheAntGreen $null check for anything running SQL2008R2 or below as containment doesnt exist in those versions. #790 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

Fix for IsClustered checks for service startup types #792 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

CertCheck took ages to run, was still checking excluded DB's then filtering, change to not query the excluded DBs #793 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

Fixed few typos in docs #799 - Thank you @jpomfret

Fixed few typos in docs #799 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

DuplicateIndex Check - Added new configuration option to allow people to filter out databases, as SSRS DB's have duplicate indexes and names are configuration in older versions, defaults to ReportServer & ReportServerTempDB

GuestUserConnect - Changes method to Get-Database instead of InstanceSMO so its easier to filter out none accessable databases as the check would report false positives for offline or restoring databases

NotExpectedTraceFlag - added a filter to filter out any trace flags which WHERE expected to prevent false positive alerts #801 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

Add policy to exclude databases on the trustworthy check #806 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

Unused Index Check wasn't executing correctly #808 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

803 Addition of the date filter for File Autogrowth detection #809 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

New Check - Agent Mail Profile #811 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

Scan for startup procs, use config option to override the value in use #813 - Thank you @TheAntGreen

Latest

Date September 22nd 2020

Only Importing Pester v4 and lower to reduce Pester v5 errors

Date July 13th 2020

Thank you jpomfret Added skip.backup.readonly config #777 Thank you jpomfret typos #771 Thank you jpomfret Added MSDB suspect pages table check #768 Thank you markaugust Added instance name to Agent Service ACcount checks #766 Thank you tboggiano fixed Agent Run time calculation #746

Date 9th May 2020

UPDATED TO VERSION 2

New Commands

Convert-DbcResult - To parse results and add Label, ComputerName, Instance and Database
Set-DbcFile - To save the parsed results to a file json, csv or xml
Write-DbcTable - to add results to a database

New Parameter -FromDatabase on Star-DbcPowerBi - to open new Power Bi template file

New PowerBi template file for reporting on results from the database

Improved Spelling

Updated Unit Tests for Checks to enabled results to be parsed

Improved Check Titles

Configuration for Max history days for Job duration

Stop trying to check inaccessible databases for checks

Improved Query Store checks

Ensure long running agent jobs ignores durations longer than 24 hours

Ignore jobs that never stop from the duration check

Latest

Date 29th March 2020

UPDATED MINIMUM POWERSHELL VERSION

Updated Required versions of Pester, dbatools and PSFramework modules

Thank you @dstrait Fix variable for SaDisabled check #750 Fix errant braces in SQL Browser Service Check #751 Fix PingComputer Check #752

Thank you markaugust Fix to ensure AG Name is in HADR checks #755

Thank you Tracey Boggiano Added Contained Database auth check and Query Store Enabled Checks #756

Thank you Rob Added exclude database config for Query store checks Version check for Query Store Checks Some spellings!

Latest

Date 18th March 2020

Thank you Tracey tboggiano New CIS user-defined CLRs to be set to SAFE_ACCESS #734 CIS tests for if service accounts are local admins #736

Thank you Rob Getting service accounts tests to pass if no service Made long running jobs check work as expected Improved Database Mail check Made sure disk allocations dont run on Core

Thank you mikedavem Fixed bug in disk allocation check exclusions Added multiple ags to the HADR check #742

Date 14th March 2020

Thank you Tracey tboggiano New CIS Check Hide Instance #728 New CIS Check Symmetric Key #732 New CIS Check Agent Proxy not have access to public Role #732

Date 8th January 2020

Thank you Tracey tboggiano New CIS Check Guest Account connect permissions #725 New CIS Check BuiltIn Admins login #726 New CIS Check public role permissions #729 New CIS Check local windows groups do not have logins #731 Update sa login check #730

Thank you Rob Added Tag parameter to Get-DbcCheck Updated tests to work with PowerShell 7

Date 22nd December

Thank you Tracey tboggiano Two New CIS Checks Contained databases should be auto-closed #721 sa login disabled and should not exist #719

Thank you Rob Fix bug in Agent Tests #723

Date 28th November

Thank you Tracey tboggiano Added new CIS Check for the latest SQL build #716

Thank you Rob Making the SQL Engine Service Check configurable #706

Date 26th November

Thank you Tracey @tboggiano Added new CIS Check for OLE AUtomation Procedures to be disabled #707 Moving the Cross DB Ownership Chaining check into the AllInstance check to help speed up checks #708 Thank you Rob Fixing the Tags so that they are picked up by AllInstanceInfo Fixes #715

Date 16th November

Thank you Matt @matt2005 Removed rogue else from Agents Tests #713

Date 17th October

Thank you Shane @SOZDBA Improved Documentation Thank you Gareth NewMan Added New Check - Default File Path

Date 1st October 2019

Thank you Rob Fixed some merge issues with a load of code :-( Created GitHub Action to run Pester Checks on PR Thank you @TracyBoggiano Added New Checks RemoteAccessDisabled ScanForStartUpProcedures Thank you Gareth Newman Improved wording in tests #700 , #697 Fix incorrect calculation in last agent run time #696 #698 Fixed bug in AllInstanceInfo Thank you Richard Imenes Fixed dead links in readme #702 Thank you Benjamin Schenk Fixed Send-MailMessage in readme #705

Date 30th July 2019

Thank you Rob ;-) Added two new checks #239 LastJobRunTime and LongRunningJob Added four new configs skip.agent.longrunningjobs skip.agent.lastjobruntime agent.longrunningjob.percentage agent.lastjobruntime.percentage

Date 29th July 2019

Thank you @TracyBoggiano Added tags for checks that will be part of CIS checks #642 CIS project started Added check for default trace enabled #684

Date 23rd July 2019

Thank you @dstrait, @Sozdba Fix tests that use time to work if client and instance are in different time zones #610 Fixed Maintenance Solution clean up time test #633 Improved Run time #635 Improved Error Log warning window honouring #637 Ignore SQL 2005 for some tests #630,629,#628 Skip TF1118 test if SQL2016 or above

Date 8th July 2019

Thanks to Chuck for notifying of error Fixed Update-DbcPowerBiDataSource

Date 2nd July 2019

dbachecks works with PowerShell Core #620 dbachecks works with dbatools v1 #624 Minimum PowerShell Now 5.0 #568 Prettier output in test names for @cl because she is ace #495 Fixes for none-readable secondaries causing tests to fail #611 Added ability to exclude disks from disk allocation check #561 Added ability to exclude cancelled jobs from failed job check #552 Added max job history for failed jobs #552 Some extra tags added

Date 22nd May 2019 at Techorama in Room 12

Thank You @SOZDBA, @djfcc, @wsmelton Improved validation for IP addresses in clusters Ignored Off-line databases for Pseudo Recovery Checks Some internal testing changes

Date 05/02/2019

Thank you Chrissy! @cl added default environment #596 altered configuration validation for mail to stop errors Ensured database status check doesnt fail as readonly for snapshots

Date 31/01/2019

Thank you Chrissy! add support for inline config file, fixes #501 #594

Date 29/01/2019

Added skip for authentication scheme #587 Added WhatIf to Update-DbcPowerBiDataSource Thank you @shaneis #590 $null to the left Thank you @jwmoss #588

Date 19/01/2019

Thank you Claudio Added extra check for Job History Settings #582 Added extra check for Error Log Count #583 Added integration test code and docker compose file

Latest

Date 22/11/2018

Spelling - Thanks RonaldHensbergen Fix for #576 When calling just Invoke-DbcCheck without a Check it fails to run the Server Tests correctly

Date 12/11/2018

Added more information to the output - thanks @ClaudioESSilva Spelling - Thanks ChrisTuckerNM Fix for #564 - Error Importing DbcConfig in PowerShell 4 - Thanks @niphod

Date 29/10/2018

Fixed #435 Page verify on SQL 2000 and SQL2005 Reduced number of calls to the instance for database checks improving performance

Date 27/10/2018

Fixed #435 Page verify on SQL 2000 and SQL2005 Reduced number of calls to the instance for database checks improving performance

Date 17/10/2018

Spelling and Because added - Thank you @LowlyDBA New Check for XPCmdShell enabled added

Date 11/10/2018

Added Check for CLR Enabled Added Check for Cross Database Ownership Chaining Added Check for Database Mail XPs Added Check for Ad Hoc Distributed Queries Added Tag for security Demo CI/CD at Polar Conf

Date 24/09/2018

Moved the Instance Connection Check to the Instance Tests Fixed bug with Set-DbcConfig not adding none-arrays! New Check for Expected Trace Flags New Check for Not Expected TraceFlags Stopped dbatools chatty messages polluting the test results

Date 07/09/2018

Updated dbatools required module to 0.9.410 Renamed all dbatools commands to new naming convention Fixed Bug with JSON file naming Improved Server Checks to remove Red and improve speed for none contactable servers Altered all server checks to use assertions and added pester Tests Removed left over ogv entry

Date 05/09/2018

New Check for 2 digit cut off thanks @CláudioESSilva https://claudioessilva.eu/2018/09/04/dont-cutoff-yourself-when-dealing-with-dates-in-t-sql-did-you-know/ Fixed bug with adding NoneContactable Instances to variable Improved error handling for HADR checks

Date 28/08/2018

Added MaxBehind to SupportedBuild Tests - Thank you @LowlyDBA Ensured the Database parameter checks only the specified Databases - Thank you @jpomfret Updated Set-DbcConfig to allow Append to append arrays to arrays closes #535 Altered json filename creation to avoid max characters error Altered PowerBi to display information correctly with filename changes

Date 24/08/2017

Fixed Error with using Credential and stopped changing path when running checks from custom repos - Thank you @sammyxx

Date 23/08/2017

Update to the help message for clusters by @LowlyDBA Potential Breaking Change - Removed Tags from names of json files so that PowerBi will correctly show Environment names

Date 15/08/2018

Fixed issue 521 ExcludeDatabase parameter doesn't work - THANK YOU @jpomfret THANK YOU @jpomfret - Issue 509 -Database should only check databases listed and exclude all others Further update to Update-DbcPowerBiDataSource to allow Environment as well as specify filename Improved performance of the Server checks Improved performance of the Instance checks Improved performance of the Database checks Improved performance of the ErrorLog checks Removed Send-DbcSendMailMessage until it can be re-coded

Date 13/08/2018

Fixed #504 by enabling FileName parameter on Update-PowerBiDataSource Added in new function to begin to reduce the number of calls to each instance Reduced required Pester version to 4.3.1 Further PowerShell V4 improvements

Date 06/08/2018

Added New Check for tempdb data file sizes to be the same - Thank you @garethnewman #512 Altered Services Check so that clustered instances start mode is checked correctly thank you @kylejdoyle #516 Skip PowerPlan test if no connection thanks @cl #490 Fixed bug with XESession and PSv4 thank you @kylejdoyle #517 Error silently on failing Service check (thanks Rob ;-) ) Fixed dbatools command names Fixed PSv4 support for importing the module also

Date 31/07/2018

Added check for Database Exists - Thanks @sqldbawithbeard Added excluded databases config to each Database Check and wrote Pester Test for that #506 Added msdb to exclusion fro duplicate index #506 Fixed offline install bug #484

Date 30/07/2018

Updated Required Module versions - Thank you @cl Updated Agent Checks to fail a test on no connection rather than throw all the PowerShell errors - Thanks @sqldbawithbeard Updated HADR Checks for PS4 compatibility Issue #513

Date 28/06/2018

Don't check versions before 2008 for AdHocWorkloads Thank you John McCall @LowlyDBA More Spelling! Thank you John McCall @LowlyDBA Updated required version and dbatools error log command name Thank you Our Glorious Chrissy @cl

Date 30/05/2018

New Release Notes command added Spelling

Date 29/05/2012