ColdFusion 10/Windowns 7 Pro 64bit Connection verification failed for data source

Question

I’m having issue setting up a data source on my new windows 7 Pro 64bit laptop. I have a fresh install of Coldfusion 10 with latest hot fix and Microsoft SQL Express 2012 64

Answer 1

(From the comments...)

Did you enable mixed mode authentication in SQL server? IIRC, it defaults to Windows Authentication only.

Instructions from link:

To ... configure SQL Server in Mixed Authentication Mode ... [for] SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008, and SQL Server 2005

1. Open SQL Server Management Studio
2. Right-click the server, and then click Properties.
3. On the Security page, under Server authentication, click the SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode option button, and then click OK.
4. In the SQL Server Management Studio dialog box, click OK to restart SQL Server.