Policy-based management almost makes it to AS2008
I was using SQLMS with AS2008 the other day and noticed when right-clicking on the server node in the Object Explorer window some policy-based management options seemed to be available...
Now policy-based management is one of the new features of the relational engine in SQL2008; you can read more about it here:
http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1492