While working with a colleague this past week, I ran into a weird scenario with this error that you might find interesting. We had a 2 server active/passive cluster, and while on node b, the SQL Cluster Resource would fail to come online. We could bring the resource online outside of the cluster, but it […]
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The client and server cannot communicate...
This is a 3rd installment of the error “The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm“. You can find the first 2 blogs here: Part 1 Part 2 In Part 1, I alluded to another cause of the SCHANNEL error, and it boils down to issues with the Ciphers […]
What client provider am I using to conne...
In my previous post, I discussed the following error, and how to resolve it. The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm In this post, I’m going to answer some common questions about the provider you are using to connect to SQL Server, and which updates you should apply […]
The client and server cannot communicate...
Let’s talk about TLS 1.2 Support for SQL Server. You may have seen the errors below when trying to start SQL Server after a reboot, or trying to connect to SQL Server: The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm A connection was successfully established with the server, but […]