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January 2016

Solved: SQL Azure - Client unable to establish connection because an error was encountered during handshakes before login

January 29, 2016

This one has taken a few hours without any sign of anything useful in search engines, and in the end boiled down to a simple missing outbound firewall rule.   Problem Trying to connect to SQL Azure using SQL Server Native Client with OLEDB vi... Read more & comment