Follow-up on Policy-based Management in SQL Server 2008 v1

I asked Dan Jones about getting the policies in SQL Server 2008 to be evaluated in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. You can create policies in SQL Server 2008 instances and use those policies to evaluate and even implement them in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 instances with a couple of things to consider. One, if you are targetting facets which only exist in SQL Server 2008, the policies won't get evaluated on previous versions. An example of this is creating a policy which checks whether or not FILESTREAM option is enabled on a database. This of course won't get evaluated on previous version instances. The same is true when you intend to run the policies on previous version. You cannot run those policies on schedule or on-demand unless you use a workaround using PowerShell to do that. I'll work on a couple of samples where I'll create a policy in SQL Server 2008 and evaluate previous version instances based on that policy.