Feb 19, 2013 Posted by newlife007

How To Enable Named Pipes and TCP/IP for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SQLExpress

During a recent installation of HP Insight Manager 7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 server the prerequisites failed complaining about you must enable named pipes and TCP/IP for the existing database service Microsoft SQL Server 2008. After a default install they are usually disabled. This applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express as well. To enable named pipes and TCP/IP for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Click Start... read more