Hi farside41 / Hi all

I don't know if the issue here is still relevant for anyone.

However, we had the exact same issue as described by farside41 on a lot of clients in our corporate network. Besides SSMS, there were also other applications affected making direct SQL connects.

We have troubleshooted the issue with Microsoft Premier Support.

In the end, the issue was triggered by an upgrade of the VMware Horizon View client, as described here: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2105977

Be careful with the KB.

The reg key is the root cause but the example from VMware did not work in our environment. We had to analyze it in more detail and export it from a non-affected client.

Regards,

Mike