Recently, one of my customers considered enabling Trace Flag 3625 on one of their SQL Servers, but they wanted a way to quickly test its functionality beforehand. For those...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-12)
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In a previous blog post, I showed you how to use PowerShell to retrieve the details of the certificate being used for encryption-in-transit, aka TLS encryption. I have received...
2023-11-22 (first published: 2023-11-14)
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In a few previous articles, I have talked a lot about Managed Service Accounts (MSA) and Service Principal Names (SPN) and given examples of managing the separately. As a...
2022-11-11 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Managed Service Accounts (MSA) are intended to run as a service and not to be used by an end user to logon interactively; however, there are some cases where...
2022-03-15
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In my previous post, I discussed how to setup Kerberos constrained delegation and a limitation of using that method. This post will discuss how we can used resource-based Kerberos...
2022-03-01
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For those of you that need to setup Kerberos constrained delegation for Group Managed Service Accounts, you will likely get more familiar with msDS-AllowedToDelegateTo. This attribute stores a list...
2022-02-15
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Kerberos delegation is not a new concept in Active Directory; however, setting it up for Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) can be a bit confusing. Unlike normal domain accounts,...
2022-02-01
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A while back I had to help a customer update their naming standard for their Managed Service Accounts, so I thought I would share some of those details. The...
2022-01-18
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In my opinion, all customers should be encrypting connections to their SQL Servers to secure data in-transit, but that’s a discussion for another day. Today, I wanted to discuss...
2022-01-04
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The 64Kb Allocation Unit size is one of the easiest SQL Server best practice items to complete during your new builds, but from time to time, I still see...
2021-12-07
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A brief introduction to the tool and its advantages for database migrations DevOps is...
In a previous blog post we went through how to build a Docker container...
Businesses are drowning in data, but starving for insights. That's where SQL experts swoop...
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