TFS 2015 connection with SQL Server 2014

Question

I am trying to connect my TFS-2015 residing on one machine to the SQL Server 2014 residing on another machine.

This is my SQL Server instance name:

This is the error I get on TFS:

Please guide me the fix here.

Answer 1

It could be a firewall setting on the sql server. Can you connect using SSMS from another machine in your network? Are you using the default port? If so is there a firewall rule allowing traffic on 1433?

If connection is not the problem then it looks like a user right issue. The account running TFS and if it is different the account installing TFS will need a proper login to SQL.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2010/08/20/database-permissions-required-to-configure-tfs/

Answer 2

Look at your screenshot: You only gave it a SQL instance name ( MSSQLSERVER ). You have to provide a database server name as well. How is it going to know what server to connect to otherwise?