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These two updates are seems to break SQL Windows-based authentication resulting in clients getting the message below. Remove these July 2023 updates from the server and everything magically goes back to working as it did before.

  • 2023-07 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (KB5028169)
  • 2023-07 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 (1809) for x64-based Systems (KB5028168)
SQL Error Message