Trados Business Manager – End of Life Announcement

Trados Business Manager (TBM) has reached end of life. Following the discontinuation of TBM sales on 31 October 2023, all maintenance and support services will conclude on 31 October 2024.
What Does This Mean for TBM Users?

  • End of Services: RWS will no longer provide any services related to the installation or updating of TBM.
  • Existing Installations: TBM will remain functional where already installed, but the RWS support team will not offer assistance in troubleshooting issues, addressing reported problems, or providing further development for TBM.
  • Documentation: The TBM documentation has been removed from docs.rws.com.
  • Community Support: The community forum for TBM will remain accessible in a read-only format for users to reference if needed.

Unable to log in and connect to a database

Hi Eugene,

My team is planning to use the Team version and has just installed SQL server + TBM. However, the following error was encountered:

Can't connect to a database, please check connection string. Exception details: Unable to open database. Connection string: 'Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Initial Catalog=TBM;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;Encrypt=False;TrustServerCertificate=true;MultiSubnetFailover=False;'; Error: 'Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Cannot open database "TBM" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'IIS APPPOOL\TBM'. at Microsoft.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningObject, UInt32 waitForMultipleObject...

Do you have any suggestion?

I used .\SQLExpress - simillar to another user who asked you in previous thread. Thank you in advance

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