Security - a major ingredient for every Enterprise to avoid the adversaries attempt to invade your customers’ networks and access their servers—to bring them down, infect them with viruses, or steal information about customers or employees, every day! The recent release of Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft...
Here is a quick snippet on enabling a SQL login to password expiration and password policies as per the Windows server: Open the SQL Server 2005 Management Studio. In the left pane, go to the desired server and navigate to the Security folder and expand it. Expand the Logins folder. Right-click on the...
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What is the Kerberos Authentication? What are the security features difference between Windows 2000 and 2003 versions? How it is behaved within Failover Clustering? How to enable Kerberos Authentication Including SQL Server Virtual Servers on Server Clusters? Let us see how the user access to SQL Server...
Yet another AWE memory settings blog post here that I'm posting for the issues we have had recently. Before going into details review about 3GBPAE blurb here and also refer to this KBA274750 to enable more than 2GB memory within your SQL Server Enterprise edition instance. Coming to the problem on...
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Last week I have been delegated to finalize the security standards within a set of SQL 2005 instances that are used by a customer, though it is usual chores for me to apply industry best practices. On these SQL 2005 instances in particular I was more keen on applying "disabling SA account"...
You might have come across a situation to have a better understanding on what /3GB or /PAE switch means that are referred in documentations and forums you go on. I will try my best to give you the notes what I have understood so far in this regard. From the available documentation on Technet & MSDN...
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What happens if your business critical systems are unavailable for hours or even days? Events like recent hurricane seasons, the record tornado outbreaks in the Midwest, and the record rainfall in the West have heightened attention for preparedness and disaster recovery. Ranging from loss of telecommunications...