When trying to create protection for SharePoint 2007 farm, DPM reports it is unable to contact the SQL server

Hello,

This problem occurs when you are using SQL aliasing on SQL 2005 and beyond and you do not install the SQL client tools on the WFE's

You only need to configure protection of the SharePoint farm on one WFE, but ensure you install the SQL client tools on all the WFE's on the farm. But specifically I Installed SQL client connectivity tools on WFE server so that the aliases could be resolved by the SharePoint writer/wsscmdletswrapper

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