title: Connection Timeout Expired: on SQL Server 2014
body: <p>I'm trying to connect the database sever using SSMS locally.</p>
  
  <p>But it is throwing the below error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Cannot connect to Server</p>
    
    <p>Connection Timeout Expired.  The timeout period elapsed while attempting to consume the pre-login handshake acknowledgement.  This could be because the pre-login handshake failed or the server was unable to respond back in time.  The duration spent while attempting to connect to this server was - [Pre-Login] initialization=4574; handshake=10433;  (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: -2)</p>
    
    <p>The wait operation timed out</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Server Info:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>SQL Server 2014 standard with SP1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1.</li>
  <li>Windows firewall is not enabled.</li>
  <li>TCP/IP is also enabled.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This issue is showing up after the oracle client software was installed.
  do we need to reboot the windows server ?</p>