Someone asked me this week - what are the relevance of the RPC and RPC Out settings on a linked server? Do you need both of them or only one of them set to True?The documentation is online in this article, but it doesn't clearly show examples or provide enough context, so I will try to do that here.1. The first RPC setting is mainly for a legacy feature called Remote Server, which is documented here.You probably will not be using remote servers in SQL Server 2005 -SQL Server 2014 versions.If you do happen to use 'remote servers', the RPC setting enables a certain security feature. If it is turned off, when the second server (the one receiving the login attempt from the first server to which the client connected) tries to validate the remote login, it fails with error18482 “Could not connect to server '%.ls' because '%.ls' is not defined as a remote server. Verify that you have specified the correct server name.%.ls.”EXEC master.dbo.spserveroption @server=N'MYREMOTESERVER', @optname=N'rpc', @optvalue=N'true'Kudos to my peer Ignacio Alonso Portillo for helping figure out this legacy option.2.
Sql Server Enable Remote Connections 2014
Connect To SQL Server Database Over Network - Enable Network Access in SQL Server - Remote Access - Duration: 5:54. Admin Technomark 82,271 views. How to enable remote connections to MS SQL server? Connect to the server via RDP. Press the Start button, go to Microsoft SQL Server XXXX (where XXXX is the MSSQL version) and click the SQL Server XXX Configuration Manager. Open the SQL Server Configuration Manager (Local) SQL Server Network Configuration menu and click the Protocols for MSSQLSERVERXXXX (where.