I installed a new installation of SQL 2008R2 server on Windows 2008R2 server. First I can not connect to it with SQL management Studio 2005 so I wanted to install 2008R2 and I can not install it and that first. I used a PC with SQL management Studio 2008R2
but I can not connect to the database and I receive the following error "a network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to sql server, the server was not found or was not accessible. Verfiy the instance name is correct
and that SQL server is configured to allow remote connection. error 40 - could not open a connection to SQL server Microsoft SQL server, error 2
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