title: Configure a SQL Server Instance as (local)
body: <p>Each member of our development team has a copy of our application's database running on a local version of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise with SP1. Everyone is able to access the database by specifying their server and instance name in their web.config file, but to best share the developer version of our web.config file, we have standardized on making connections strings generic by using integrated security and setting server property to (local). This strategy is working fine for the majority of our 64-bit Windows 7 machines but in few cases (local) isn't recognized. We have compared settings via the SQL Server Configuration Manager (namely ensuring that the named pipes protocol was enabled) and we've tried setting the "(local)" alias via SQL Server Client Network Utility, but we haven't any luck. What needs to be done in order to use (local) in our connections strings? </p>