I saw the article too (it's getting a lot of play on techie sites right now,) and the author did nothing incorrect.  Frankly, the blame starts with the person who...

Ugh, what a "fun" morning (for certain values of "fun")

Trying to clean up logins on an old server that's waiting on one customer before being decommissioned, whip up...

I'd agree with Grant and Hugo, rather than getting down to individual RDBMS systems, think 1000ft view, especially with the limited timeframe for the presentation.  Think "explaining to the CXX...

Rolled into work this morning and was wondering if it was a Saturday or if I missed a holiday somewhere...
Parking lot was nearly empty, I found a spot nearly...

As a counterpoint to being excited about the new features:  https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/06/automated-tuning-and-the-future-of-performance-tuners/ 

My nickels worth on the topic of auto-tuning databases and the like is probably going to sound...

As a thought, I'm wondering if the SQL Agent is running into a permission problem (either unable to run xp_fixeddrives, or being denied access to the drives themselves)

Try...