We are using a Execute Process task and calling powershell from within. Thansk for the link we may have to go this route.

Paul Randall is the daddy of DBCC CheckDB (he wrote it). Check out his posts.

http://sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/category/CHECKDB-From-Every-Angle.aspx

It will run as long as it needs to depending on many factors,...

We are using TDE for one of our servers and have noticed only a minor impact, but it is not a heavily transacted database either. One of the impacts...

I would agree with the other comments, nice article but hardly best practice.  One thing that was not mentioned was the use of the Upgrade Advisor, which comes with SQL...