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“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 connection. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)” This error might have occured due to [...]

If you install IIS after .Net 2.0 or Visual studio 2005, you may receive “Failed to access IIS metabase” error. To resolve this issue either you need to install .Net framework again after IIS or you can do the following… You can use the aspnet_regiis utility comes with .Net framework 2.0. This is an administrator [...]