The request failed or the service did not respond

Question

I have the following error while I connect to SQL Server 2008 Management Studio with Windows authentication.

"The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion.
Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details."

Is anybody tell me why i am getting this error, whereas my SQL Server is running under network service built in a/c????

I googled it but not getting solution..

Thanks

Answer 1

After chasing this issue for some hours, we found an log in the SQL Server Agent logs stating the following:

This installation of SQL Server Agent is disabled. The edition of SQL server that installed this service does not support SQL server agent.

We were using SQL Server Express. After some Googling it appears SQL Server Express does not support SQL Server Agent.

I didn't find a direct piece of Microsoft communications stating that SQL Express doesn't support SQL Server Agent, however this sentiment seems to be echoed across many forums.

Answer 2

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/52394.sql-server-troubleshooting-logon-failure-the-user-has-not-been-granted-the-requested-logon-type-at-this-computer.aspx

event viewer shows Logon failure - the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer