We were recently facing an issue where several SSIS packages failed to execute against a newly created SQL FCI Cluster with DAG and several listeners created, with the following error being received as an output. Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication. [CLIENT: xxx.xxx.x.xxx] SSPI handshake... » read more
There is an unfortunate situation, where your Active Directory’s database gets corrupted and you are left with no clues of what has caused this inconvenience, or how to resolve it. Sadly, we had to recently face that issue as this Event ID gets accompanied by several others, including Event ID 1084, of task category Replication,... » read more
Before starting, let me inform you that Microsoft itself, promotes no way (or supporting) of downgrading Windows Server versions. In my case, i wanted to downgrade several Windows Server Datacenter servers, to Standard Edition, during their in-place upgrade process. The initial plan was to create new VMs and reinstall everything but the heavy configuration and... » read more