If you are having trouble powering off a VMware ESXi 5.x virtual machine, there is a command line method to force the VM to shut down. Here was the message I was receiving when trying to power off a VM: The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state. So the current state, which…
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If you have an application that uses SQL Server Reporting Services and you are seeing errors similar to this: ReportServerException: The report server has encountered a configuration error. Logon failed for the unattended execution account. You may have an inappropriately configured “Execution Account” for Reporting Services. If you browse to your Reporting Services log at…
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Recently I encountered a database issue on a Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 server that can only be described as a case of a phantom SPID (server process ID). What I mean by phantom is that this SPID was showing a date of 1900-01-01. All external connections to this database had been severed, but every attempt…
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