SQL Live! speaker Bill Vaughn guides you through the maze of issues you''ll face as you connect to, manage, and monitor SQL Server instances.

Check if you can connect via SSMS and what connection properties you use there (windows auth or etc). Check in SQL Server Configuration Manager if your SQL Server instance is running.

Reason: login failed for user 'sa'. Please verify SQL Server is running and check your SQL Server Registration properties (by right-clicking on the SERVER1 node) and try again.</pre> ...

To access the files on the server, each employee and user must initiate a remote connection to the server over an active Internet signal.