Remote desktop connection authentication error due to “CredSSP encryption oracle remediation” #GDPR

In March, Microsoft released a security update to address vulnerabilities for the Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP) used by Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections for Windows clients and Windows Server.

Previously, you were able to connect remotely from the updated machine to machines without the update. However, with the latest update released this May, Microsoft hardened security, and you can no longer connect to machines without the update.These might came in due to #GDPR

You will face the CredSSP encryption oracle remediation error if you have applications or services such as the Remote Desktop Connection that use CredSSP on an updated machine. Authentication will not work and you will get this error message:

Here is error message that is seen after recent windows update

The workable solution I found is to edit client Windows’ local group policy (gpedit.msc):

Under Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Credentials Delegation

Find setting “Encryption Oracle Remediation”. Its default value is “Not configured”. Just change it to “Enabled”, and set “Protection Level” as “Vulnerable”.

Now your remote desktop should be able to connect. Remember to revert the setting after you are done.

.NET Core 2.1 released

Latest .NET Core 2.1 includes improvements to performance, to the runtime and tools. It also includes a new way to deploy tools as NuGet packages. There are many other new APIs, focused on cryptography, compression, and Windows compatibility. It is the first release to support Alpine Linux and ARM32 chips.

With the release of .NET Core 2.1, You can start updating existing projects to target .NET Core 2.1 today. The release is compatible with .NET Core 2.0, making updating easy.
 

Here are features of ASP.NET Core 2.1 and Entity Framework Core 2.1

You can download and get started with .NET Core 2.1, on Windows, macOS, and Linux:

• .NET Core 2.1 SDK (includes the runtime)
• .NET Core 2.1 Runtime

.NET Core 2.1 is supported by Visual Studio 15.7, Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio Code.

OLE DB provider "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0" for linked server "(null)" returned message "Unspecified error"

OLE DB provider "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0" for linked server "(null)" returned message "Unspecified error

or

ole db provider "microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0" for linked server "(null)" returned message "the select statement includes a reserved word or an argument name that is misspelled or missing, or the punctuation is incorrect.".

Here is the quick resolution for this fix, try run below commands in SQL Server

USE [master] 
GO

EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
RECONFIGURE
GO
EXEC sp_configure 'ad hoc distributed queries', 1
RECONFIGURE
GO

This resolved my problem!

New partition created after Windows 10 update 1803

A new partition of size 450 MB was created after this Windows 10 1803 recent update.

Resolution:

This is a known issue in the 1803 Update
It is the recovery drive created during the windows 1803 update, we are not meant to see this partition. Since we are seeing and update was successful we can remove the drive letter and everything will return to normal.

1. Click your Start Button, type cmd, then right click Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'
2. Run this command and hit Enter
3. diskpart
4. Run this command and hit Enter
5. list volume
6. Note down the letter associated with that new drive
7. Run these commands one at a time and hit Enter (replace X with the correct drive letter)
8. select volume X
9. remove letter=X
10. Close Command Prompt and restart your PC

“md-select” - How to set a selected option of a dropdown list control using angular JS?

Try this following code to set selected value based on selected index.

<div layout="row" flex layout-align="start">
	<md-input-container flex>
		<label>{{'TicketType_Label'| translate}}</label>
		<md-select ng-model="feedbackObj.ticketType"  ng-required="true" md-no-asterisk="false" >
			<md-option ng-selected="i == 0 ? true:false"  ng-repeat="(i,type) in TicketTypes" >{{type}}</md-option>
		</md-select>					
	</md-input-container>
</div>