When you are using Active Directory Powershell cmdlets such as Get-ADDomainController, Get-ADUser, Get-ADComputer, Get-ADObject, you may receive the following error message: Such an exception is linked to the difficulty those commands have to work in a multi-domain environment, whether that multi-domain be a single forest with multiple child domains, various […]
Deploying certificates and CRL in a domain or a forest in an automated fashion can done using GPO like many other settings. However a less well-known possibility is to use the certutil -dspublish command. Let’s review how it works. When using that option, certificates are stored in one of the […]
Determining what T-SQL query or SQL Server client application is the source of log file growth is an often asked question. “Old” SQL DBAs would sometimes refer you to KB 317375 which unfortunately is no longer hosted as a Microsoft KB Article, but sadly infinitely loops on one new Docs […]
Although Visual Studio Community Edition is supposed to be free, you are required after 30 days by the graphical interface to have an account on Microsoft’s online services to continue to use the product. The trial period reset of Visual Studio Community Edition can however be easily achieved by editing […]
While trying to install new instance of SQL Server using command line and the ConfigurationFile.ini unattended answer file, you may receive the following error message : MEDIALAYOUT in SQL Server ConfigurationFile.Ini Don’t waste your time searching in different documentations about the allowed keywords for the configuration file. This error means […]
Under some circumstances, your SQL Server Agent job mail fails with the following error message: “Unable to start execution of step 1 (reason: The job step contains tokens. For SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 or later, you must use the appropriate ESCAPE_xxx macro to update job steps containing tokens […]
This post has for goal to list all techniques you can use to get remote access to Windows. Depending on your situation (white hacking, strange corporate DMZ, …) this could help you to test and accomplish your various goals: copying a file, running a process, etc. PSExec PsExec is a […]
While joining machine to a domain, multiple errors can occur. In particular Domain Join Error 0x6ba is often present but with different causes. Let’s recap the needed things to properly join the domain: The machine must be able to solve the domain name The machine must be able to retrieve […]
When W32Time starts to output warning in your system logs you may often get the following message for NtpClient Error 0x800706E1: “NtpClient was unable to set a domain peer to use as a time source because of discovery error. NtpClient will try again in 3473457 minutes and double the reattempt […]
When getting this error message Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user ‘domainname\username’, error code 0x5 in SQL Server you may be wondering what’s happening. This error message can happen in numerous occasions and while executing different T-SQL Statements, such as xp_logininfo
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Msg 15404, Level 16, State 19, Procedure xp_logininfo, Line 64 Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user 'domain\user', error code 0x5. |
Or while executing sp_xp_cmdshell_proxy_account while you […]
