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CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation

May 15th, 2018

Recently in the March 2018 security bulletin, a fix was released to address the CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation vulnerability. The..

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Error 18456 – Login Failed for User.

January 18th, 2012

Error 18456 is the generic error message for Login Failures in SQL Server. Depending on your situation this could be a simple misspelled password or the windows account does not have permission to the Instance and/or database. However I am not looking at those simple issues around this SQL Server error message. 

Error: 18456, Severity 14, State 38. Login failed for user 'DomainServiceAccountName'.  Reason : failed to open the explicitly specified database.

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Hi, I'm Warwick Rudd, I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP as well as a Microsoft Certified Master working as the Principal Consultant here at SQL Masters Consulting.
In my blog I will look at all things SQL Server as well as some things outside of the SQL Server relm but hopefully you will find them helpful and interesting.

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