Firewall Port 1433 not opening

Question

I am using MS Server 2008 with MSSQL 2008-R2 as database server.

Each time for some work i have to login to server via Remote connection.I tried to configure the S

Answer 1

If named pipes and TCP/IP access are already enabled in SQL Server Configuration Manager, then you need to either add a rule for UDP port 1434, or a rule for sqlbrowser.exe so that the SSMS client can talk to the SQL Server Browser service.

I actually see people having this problem surprisingly often so I wrote up an explanation here: http://blog.dereenigne.com/microsoft-sql-server-dynamic-ports-windows-firewall-and-you/