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Our Sharepoint is down

Hello,

We had an issue this morning with our mail server going down. When it came backup our sharepoint site did not. We get this error: "Cannot connect to the configuration database."

Any idea what i can do to fix?

Windows Server 2003

Thanks.

Justin Smith

How are the two related? ARe they on the same box?

Did you do an iisreset?

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vrosas_03

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SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) service is running. I restarted it then checked again an i get the same error: Cannot connect to the configuration database.

Both my mail server and sharepoint are on the same box.

Justin Smith

Anything in the app event log?

vrosas_03

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Unknown SQL Exception 2 occured. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)

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Justin Smith

Firewall? Are you using SQL Alias?

vrosas_03

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No firewall. I'm trying to access it directly from that server. SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) service is running. Is there another service I'm missing?

vrosas_03

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It was a service issue. However, it was Windows Internal Database (Microsoft##SSEE) service that was down. Thanks for your help.