SQL Server: Curse Of Linked Server Security And The Fix – Pass-through Authentication

Linked Servers in a sentence or two: Linked servers in SQL Server are connection definitions from one data source to another (or same instance) so that queries can be written joining tables spanning the multiple data sources. Although Linked Servers can be made to other data sources besides SQL Server (as we saw on how …

SQL Server – Resolve – Cannot generate SSPI context

These links are more for my own reference than anything else to resolve the error: "Cannot generate SSPI context" It is a pesky error message that is related to security setup. All the things you need to check are in the MS article below. How to troubleshoot the "Cannot generate SSPI context" error message In …

Compare AD group membership of two users

Our Windows security setup is completely (well, mostly 🙂 ) AD groups based. When new employees are hired, we ask for an existing employee after whom the new employees permissions should be mirrored. In other words, if we added the new employee to the same AD groups (that are related to SQL Server of course), …

Using PowerShell – Add user or group to local Administrators group in Windows + Create SQL Server Login

I cannot imagine a life without PowerShell now. You would agreee after you find out why. This is what I had to do today. The very real problem: I have a list of about 30 servers. I need to add an AD group name to the local adminstrators group on all 30 servers Create a …