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I’m still getting used to this whole podcast thing, but I appeared on one recently. I had the immense honor of sharing a panel with some fellow Tech Field Day delegates as we discussed the future of Microsoft Windows.
I’ve embedded the video below. I’ve also included a link to the audio.
I recommend going to the Gestalt IT On-Premise website to check out so many more awesome conversations https://gestaltit.com/category/podcast/
I ran into a strange error today. I attempted to launch SQL Server Configuration Manger on a server deployed in Azure, and I was greeted with an error dialog that implied either the server was unreachable or that I didn’t have rights. The error read, “Cannot connect to WMI provider. You Do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2055 and later servers with SQL Server Configuration Manager. Invalid namespace [0x8004100e].” After a bit of digging, I found a solution, and possibly even a root cause.
Read MoreOne of the big announcements from the Microsoft Ignite Conference was SQL Server 2019 being made available for public preview. Public preview means the software isn’t very far from being made generally available (GA) to everyone as a finished product. IT Pros who support SQL Server typically take a look at the new version to investigate features and understand how the software might fit into their environment. In this post I show an easy way for IT pros to try using SQL Server 2019 on a Windows 10 computer running Docker.
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