Go through the below link to understand them better.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/sql-server-technical-documentation?view=sql-server-2017

Can you post the error message that you are getting while trying to connect through SSMS.

I guess MSA will not work with servers running on older versions like windows 2003 and SQL 2005. Also will MSA be useful if the servers needs access to domain...

Hi John,

In the link pasted by you its mentioned that provide permission to group SQLServerMSSQLUser$<ServerName>$<InstanceName> to the folders. I'm not able to find these in my SQL 2012 servers....

We have a lot of servers to change so doing it via configuration manager server wise would be tedious. Is there a way to call Configuration manager pragmatically and automate...

I just want to change the password of the service account. The service account would still be the same.

Can we use the mentioned method in this case.

Does this holds true for older versions of SQL Server also like 2012, 2008, 2005.

Do you have any other error messages in the log? This is a generic message which comes when SQL is starting and is not ready to accept connections.

Please check the...

Please share what is the best approach for this.

Hi,

The default size for attachment in DBMail is 1000000 Bytes. Please increase the default size if you want to attach a file bigger than this. Go to Management>>Database mail>>Configure Database...

What is the error message you are getting when the check db is failing?

Also to check the version of your server you can run the query

select @@version

Well even we faced the issue(Time out) while creating Linked server from Sql 2005 Cluster to Sql 2000. This happens when you use managemet studio ( I mean the GUI)...

select * from msdb..restorehistory where destination_database_name='dbname'

In Sql 2000 also it will show DBCC only in the cmd column when you run DBCC Reindex.

Please check if the SQL Browser service is running or not?