title: SQL Server- connection forcibly closed during login process
body: <p>The scenario is as follow:</p>
  <p>Connection from Windows Server 2003 to SQL Server 2005 works smoothly. Now a new Windows 2012 server which hosts the same .net web application unable to connect to the same SQL Server database, it fails with the following error:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: SSL Provider,error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)]</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>As it is working fine from Windows 2003, I guess the issue could be one of these:</p>
  <ol>
  <li><p>Backward compatibility issue, as the new box is Windows 2012 instead of Windows 2003.</p>
  </li>
  <li><p>Network connectivity issue. However I can confirm the network path is fine as I can telnet port 1433 from the web server to the database server and also part of the error message is</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>A connection was successfully established with the server</p>
  </blockquote>
  </li>
  </ol>
  <p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>