Hi

Sometimes I run into this error, when deploying a BizTalk project from VS.NET: "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.  When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)"

I take a quick look at it, bang my head in the desk for doing it again, and then I perform the following steps:

1. Rightclick on the project and choose Properties
2. Go to "Configuration Properties" => "Deployment"
3. Change the "Server" property to be the servername of the SQL Server you are deploying to
4. Save changes
5. Deploy again

This happens if you receive a copy of someone elses project - since the servername is listed in the projectname.btproj.user file that is a part of the project.

Hope someone else gets quickly past this hurdle now it has been blogged.

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eliasen