Daily ArchiveFebruary 18, 2016

Skype for Business: A network-related or instance-specific SQL error #26 … 1/2

Attempts to manage your UC infrastructure with Skype for Business 2015 Control Panel or Management Shell on a #skype4b Front-End server, FE01 may provoke an error similar to the following:

Get-CsClientVersionPolicy: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network interfaces, error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified).

You verified that Windows Firewall exception (port 1433) on the Microsoft SQL Server 201x database backend …