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Depending on your Operating system, you can go into Network Connections in Control Panel (Win2k3) and click on Advanced menu and choose Advanced Settings. &nbsp;You will then see a Provider Order Tab and that will let you move on or the other up.<br />
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This is for the Operating System order. 
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Depending on your Operating system, you can go into Network Connections in Control Panel (Win2k3) and click on Advanced menu and choose Advanced Settings.  You will then see a Provider Order Tab and that will let you move on or the other up.

This is for the Operating System order.

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Using SQL Server Configuration Manager on the client computer, move TCP before named pipes in the protocol order list.<br />
i saw this suggestion for a connection problem, but how to move tcp before named pipes in protocol order list?
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Using SQL Server Configuration Manager on the client computer, move TCP before named pipes in the protocol order list.
i saw this suggestion for a connection problem, but how to move tcp before named pipes in protocol order list?

surface area config tool move tcp before named pipes

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