I just installed an Enterprise Editon of SQL Server 2016 on Windows 2012 R2. I noticed the syspolicy_purge_history is failing.
Below is the error message. I observed the line set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope process -Force
I tried to set the execution policy to RemoteSigned in Powershell as what was suggested in the error message but was not successful even when I run powershell as Administrator.
What is syspolicy_purge_history?
This job removes policies evaluation history. When a policy runs, it stores the results in MSDB. Over a period of time, this may will cause unnecessary data getting piled up in MSDB. The job syspolicy_purge_history prunes the data older than the the days defined in HistoryRetentionInDays property of Policy Management.
CAUSE:
The ‘Execution Policy’ at the Machine Policy scope is currently set to Unrestricted. This may override the configuration at the ‘Process’ scope.
SOLUTION:
This issue may be resolved by setting the ‘ExecutionPolicy’ to ‘RemoteSigned‘. But I could not change the ‘ExecutionPolicy’ in Powershell. So what I did was to change it directly in the registry.
I verified the change I made in Powershell.
The job syspolicy_purge_history now runs successfully.
