I suddenly started getting this error when trying to connect to any of my sql servers (25+) from SSMS on Windows XP. When I left work yesterday everything was working fine, came in this morning, and I started getting this. Tried rebooting my pc but that obviously didn’t fix it. My co-workers can all connect just fine. Searched for a solution but everything I found was regarding encryption in regards to .NET applications. Not sure how to apply that to SSMS.
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A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 0 – The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted.) (Microsoft SQL Server)
Try this…
Its gotta be a client issue if you lost connection to all your remote servers and your coworkers are fine. You probably got “clicky” and changed some settings inadvertantly.
Open your client network utility (mine is here: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cliconfg.exe).
Under the General Tab, check out the disabled protocols. They should all have “force protocol encryption” unchecked. If this is checked for any of those values, your local SSMS is probably trying to force an encrypted connection and failing.
Report back if this doesn’t work, and I’ll poke around a bit more.