I've made a decision. My next book will be Applied Kerberos BI. Jokes aside, I've been doing a lot of security work lately to get Kerberos working for internal and external users. Here is my latest success story. In this case, the customer has two AD forests. The internal users are on a DOMAINA in FORESTA. The production servers are in DOMAINB. The external user…
I had a laptop which blue screened and shut down. Some files got corrupted and fixed by the CheckDisk. Apparently, something got whacked during the process because the Analysis Services would refuse to start with the following error: The service cannot be started: XML parsing failed at line 1, column 40961: Illegal xml character. Unfortunately, Analysis Services doesn't support starting in recovery mode, such as…