Third-party Notices

This page is a convenience notice, not legal advice. Always review upstream source, license, support, and security posture before using third-party tools or sample data.

Used Today

Project / Publisher	How The Current Toolkit Uses It	Source Links
Azure PowerShell / Az modules	Creates Azure resources and runs VM commands.	Az PowerShell docs
PowerShell project and contributors	Runs the toolkit and guest setup scripts.	PowerShell repo, PowerShell docs
powershell-yaml	Parses config.yaml.	powershell-yaml
Chocolatey Software and Chocolatey community	Sample guest setup downloads Chocolatey’s bootstrap script and installs VM tools.	Chocolatey docs, Chocolatey packages
dbatools community	Guest setup installs dbatools; restore-databases.ps1 uses it for .bak restores.	dbatools, dbatools GitHub
Tabular Editor	Installed by the sample guest setup through Chocolatey.	Tabular Editor

Roadmap / Manual Use

These projects may appear in roadmap docs or may be installed manually by users after deployment. They are not automated by the tracked script today.

Project / Publisher	Notes
Microsoft SQL Server samples	Useful manual .bak sources for labs; future allowlisted installer may support them.
Brent Ozar Unlimited First Responder Kit	Useful manual diagnostic toolkit; future installer should remain opt-in.
Ola Hallengren SQL Server Maintenance Solution	Useful manual maintenance toolkit; future installer should keep SQL Agent jobs separately reviewed.
SQLBI Contoso data	Useful BI sample data; review license, size, and redistribution terms.
Daniel Hutmacher SQL Sunday samples	Useful larger sample data; review attribution and redistribution terms.
7-Zip	May be needed manually for compressed sample data.

Before enabling any optional download or installer in future code, review licensing, storage requirements, data sensitivity, and supply-chain risk.