SQL SERVER – Unable to Get Listener Properties Using PowerShell – An Error Occurred Opening Resource

I was engaged with a client for an AlwaysOn project and they had some follow-up questions. I took some time to find the answers and encountered an interesting error. I am sharing them here so that others can get benefited. They informed me that they are not able to see and modify listener properties. Let us learn about this error related to opening resource. 

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SQL SERVER – Error: 8509 – Import of Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) transaction failed: 0x8004d00e(XACT_E_NOTRANSACTION)

Have you ever seen an issue related to MS DTC, SQL Server and JDBC XA distributed transactions? A client contacted me for help and he wanted my opinion within one hour. They signed up for my On Demand consulting services and we started looking at the server and application.

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SCOM – Alert: SQL Server Cannot Authenticate Using Kerberos Because the Service Principal Name (SPN) is Missing, Misplaced, or Duplicated

This blog explains what needs to be done when there are tools which can monitor and report issue about SPNs. Once a client informed that SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) is connected to the databases on SQL Server and raising below warning regarding the SQL Server (Service Principal Name) SPNs:

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SQL SERVER – Cluster Patching: The RPC Server is Too Busy to Complete This Operation

If you have ever contacted me via email, you would know that I am very active in replying to emails. Many of the emails are for suggestions and I don’t get much time to help everyone, but I do reply to them letting them know the alternatives. If you are following my blog, you would know that I do provide “On Demand” services to help critical issues. This blog is an outcome of one of such short engagement. This is how it started and it is about RPC Server. 

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