Who is the scheduled task running as? NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON login failures always boil down to the user in question not being able to be authenticated across the network.

Some people have encountered timeouts with DBs over 1 GB during the CREATE DATABASE phase and got around it by creating an empty database first on the destination. Do you...

Replication and AlwaysOn should be fully supported in Standard Edition. See here and here.

There are some caveats and design decisions that are important. For...

You can configure an Always On database as a Publisher or a Subscriber in a transactional replication topology and they automatically handle failover. See here for more info....

The issue with setting SQLINST1 to synchronous is that after a failover, it will be a synchronous secondary whereas your normal state is that the secondary is asynchronous. Ideally, if...

You have two options here:

1. Script out all of your replication configurations and run them against the upgraded databases as part of your upgrade\migration, or
2. Restore your migrated databases with KEEP_REPLICATION to...

The information available in SQL Alerts can be limited. If you have SQL 2012 or higher you might try using Extended Events to capture details of these severity events. You...

What about the ##MS_PolicyTsqlExecutionLogin## login?

As per this link, that login needs sufficient READ access to each database in the policy in line with the T-SQL script used...

Are you using xp_cmdshell in your backup solution?

If so, what code is it running, and have you tried running that code manually outside of SQL to see if there is...

Does the SQL Server Agent account have CONNECT permission to the database in question?

See this link - https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7c24e908-d900-484a-80fe-08df018ac96c/policy-management-best-practices-database-page-status-scheduled-evaluation-security-issue

You cannot use an Azure SQL Database (PaaS) as a secondary in an Always On architecture, however, you can use it as a replication subscriber. You could replicate from your...