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What does it mean when my servers have a white circle instead of a green circle with a white arrow in it in SQL Server Management Studio?
It takes a noticeably longer time (5-10 seconds) to connect and if I right click on it the start and stop options are grayed out. How can I change it to green?
Note: I am connecting from a public domain to a local domain and I seem to have no connectivity issues. Port 1433 on both servers are open as well.
Thanks
I have seen this behavior before when we moved our server behind a more restrictive firewall. At this time I can not remember which actual port exception was needed in the firewall but I do remember it was not the same port as the SQL Engine (default 1433 port).