Rackspace Technology is aware that Microsoft recently published security vulnerabilities impacting Windows Operating Systems and other products. Microsoft issued patches for 83 vulnerabilities, of which 9 are critical and 2 are actively exploited as zero days. A full list of March 2023 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Advisories is available here: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2023-Mar. Rackspace engineers have performed an initial assessment and strongly recommend that customers review the advisories and ensure appropriate patches are installed.

This blog explains the steps needed to set up Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and database in Always on AG group using AutoSeeding method. (Applies to 2016 and above).

This blog demonstrates the detailed steps needed to create an SQL Database backup in a blob container. To begin, with you need to list down the available backups, and restore them from a blob container to a Prem SQL Database.

Rackspace Technology is aware of an update to the previously published OpenSLP security vulnerability (CVE-2021-21974) impacting VMware ESXi. Our partner VMware published an article available here: https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/02/83330.html. When the vulnerability was first announced in February 2021, Rackspace engineers performed the initial assessment and notified affected customers if further action was needed. Rackspace standard VMware environments are designed with an architecture that prevents public access to VMware vCenters and Hypervisors – this design decreases the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability.

This blog covers detailed information about the solution script we can use to search for the location of specific data in multiple MSSQL databases at the table and column level.

Rackspace Technology is aware of recently published security vulnerabilities impacting the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. On February 14, 2023 Microsoft issued patches for 80 vulnerabilities, of which 9 are critical and 3 are actively exploited as 0-days. Rackspace engineers have performed an initial assessment and are advising customers to ensure February 2023 Windows Patches are installed as there are not any known software mitigations or workarounds for these vulnerabilities. Rackspace customers using our Managed Patching Service will be patched during normal patching cycles.

Rackspace Technology is aware of recently published security vulnerabilities impacting F5 BIG-IP devices on code versions 13+. Our partner F5 published an article on February 2023, available here: https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000130496.

Rackspace Technology is aware of a published security vulnerability (CVE-2023-20076) impacting Cisco IOx. Our partner Cisco published an article, available here: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iox-8whGn5dL. In the article, Cisco confirmed that this issue exists, but no platforms support the affected compression algorithm because the code was put there for future application packaging support. This means that there is no immediate way to exploit this issue. Cisco has resolved this issue in the event that a future platform does support the compression algorithm.

This blog covers detailed information about the solution we have developed using a variety of software to assist DBA team members to create quick graphical presentations of performance data collected from the performance monitor using following tasks

Replication can be defined as the process via which Data and database objects are copied and distributed between databases, and then synchronized to ensure consistency. Transactional replication is typically used in scenarios requiring high server throughput, Reporting and data warehouses; improving scalability and availability; integrating data from disparate sources. Batch processing can be offloaded, heterogeneous data can be integrated, and multiple sites can be integrated.