Enable TLS1.2 only in SharePoint 2013

Question

Hi all I have sp 2013 with win 2008 R2 . Same OS for DB. Tried to enable only TLS1.2 by disabling other in registry in sp farm and DB server but getting an error for sql connection. Please guide for the same.

Answer 1

Hi @Prajkta Patil,

Thank you for your replay.

When SharePoint Server fails to connect to SQL Server, the question "This operation can only be performed on computers that have joined the server farm" usually appears.

Please refer to this article to troubleshoot the problems one by one: Operation can be performed on computer that is joined to server farm.

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According to the official configuration documentation, you do need to make all the settings to enable TLS1.2 in SharePoint.

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Answer 2

Hi @Praj,

Thank you for posting in this community.

Based on the description of your problem and after checking the relevant information, your problem is likely to be generated by the following reasons.

1.Please check your SQL Server version against this article (TLS 1.2 support for Microsoft SQL Server) as some older versions of SQL Server do not support TLS 1.2.

2.TLS1.2 is not enabled by default, please make sure that TLS1.2 is enabled in the following sections.

• SharePoint servers in your SharePoint farm
• Microsoft SQL Servers in your SharePoint farm
• Client computers used to access your SharePoint sites

3.This is the official documentation for the steps to enable TLS 1.2 for SharePoint. You can refer to this article to see if your configuration process is wrong causing SQL connection errors.

4.If the issue still persists, please share me more details about the SQL connection error.

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