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Azure SQL Managed Instance – Windows Authentication – Cannot generate SSPI context
Intro I had configured all the pre-requisites I could read about in the articles for configuring Windows Authentication support via Entra ID for Azure SQL Managed Instance. But when testing using SQL Studio Management, it would fail with the following error: The target principal name is incorrect. Cannot generate SSPI context I knew that Entra…
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Azure Local – Custom location in failed provision state
This one was not something I was working on myself, but I got this from a customer of mine. The problem was and the customer could not choose several of their Azure Local custom locations for deployment of new virtual machines. Running this command can tell us status on the custom location: If it shows…
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Azure Local – CPU reservations on virtual machines
Some application vendors require a CPU core reservation to be configured. However, this configuration can conflict with pre-update health checks. It you encounter this error during updates, remove the CPU reservations: Below you can see a picture of an active reservation. This number should be set to 0 while updating happens. You can use PowerShell…
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Azure Local – UpgradeArbAndExtensions – arcappliance upgrade failed – line 3345 at UpgradeArbAndExtensionsInternal
The error Intro I was updating an Azure Local Stack from 11.2509 to 11.2510. Doing the update, I hit an issue about the MOC ARB update. The error above is not very helpful, but I found better information in these logs: “\NODE01\C$\ClusterStorage\Infrastructure_1\Shares\SU1_Infrastructure_1\MocArb\WorkingDirectory\CloudStore\log\agent-log-2692″ Showed that one of the nodes was not responding on port 45000 (not…
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Azure Local – AzStackHci Environment Checker
This is just a very small article about some cool things about the environment checker for Azure Local. I have used it multiple times for troubleshooting scenarios, that did not involve deployment (this tool is mainly for validation in the deployment phase). Microsoft Learn article about this tool: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-local/manage/use-environment-checker?view=azloc-2510&tabs=connectivity If you get errors on pre-update…
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Azure Local – Exception caught in Test-AzStackHciArcIntegration validator
Intro Below are a few different steps I have got from working with Microsoft Support while we did several troubleshooting sessions on an Azure Local Stack that could not update from 2507 to 2510 (25398 OS level). The error Error from “Get-SolutionUpdate” Health Results: Title : Environment Validator ExceptionStatus :…
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