Tag Archives: administration

Essential Operations

Posted on April 22, 2021 by way0utwest

It would seem obvious, but IT Operations staff are often essential to ensuring that systems and business can keep running. From websites to email to VPNs, many of the companies in which I’ve worked don’t have systems that will run … Continue reading →

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Security Updates for SQL Server Jan 2021–CVE-2021-1636

Posted on January 13, 2021 by way0utwest

There was a security bulletin (CVE-2021-1636) for SQL Server, an elevation of Privilege vulnerability that could be exploited when an Extended Event session is running. SQL Server has released a number of patches. You can see them on the Release … Continue reading →

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Reassess Your Configuration

Posted on January 12, 2021 by way0utwest

It’s the start of a new year, and while it might feel like COVID-19 has us stuck back in March 2020, I hope that will start to fade as we move into the new year. Certainly our employers want to … Continue reading →

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Do You Know What the Settings Should Be?

Posted on September 28, 2020 by way0utwest

One of the research areas at the Redgate Foundry is in estate management, trying to better understand how people manage an estate of servers. These could be physical servers you own, VMs in a hosted or cloud situation, or even … Continue reading →

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