Are you talking about something like this?

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/06/10/weekend-scripter-use-powershell-to-manage-windows-network-locations.aspx

Thanks Grant. That is pretty much what I thought. I will continue with my laptop setup then.

Not to piggy back off your question but...

I am also looking for cloud based hosting for a demo environment. I know Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc are all in a...

I have never been able to open SSAS 2008 with SSMS 2012.

I agree with Joie that an AD group mapped to windows authentication on the instances is the best way to go for this. This about it - if the...

The exception is if you are trying to manage SSAS through SSMS. I have found it requires the same version of SSMS as the version of SSAS.

Not sure where it is. Maybe it is not including in SQL Server installation anymore?

Looks like you can find the version your looking for here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/hh297027

It sounds like...

Thanks Gary. I always forget Powershell is special 🙂

Looks like you are missing a parameter in the DetachDatabase syntax.

See this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.management.smo.server.detachdatabase.aspx

You need to add a Boolean for the update statistics parameter. Assuming you don't want...

With virtual machines, we have actually gone the other way creating instances for each application and may times on their own small VM. Currently we are limiting VM's to...

Well that is always assuring to hear. Thanks for the advice Grant and I will see if I can come up with a good closing line. I hope...

SSRS Is hard to debug because the errors are pretty cryptic. From my experience, I have seen similar issues with file system subscriptions and it was network related. ...

First I would create this stored procedure within your instance and not within SSRS.

Then when you create the dataset, under Query type select stored procedure. Find your procedure name...

If you append -Script to the end of the Join-SqlAvailabilityGroup command it should script it out for you. This could provide additional insight as to where it is...

What type of subscription are you trying to create? File system or Sharepoint?

How often does it run/error out?