Hi, yes, I did add the port number to the connection string in the web.config in the format of machine\instance,port (in the same format as I connected via SSMS) and I did update the configuration for the instance in the SQL Server Configuration Manager adding the port. But it didn't work. But once I added the default port (1433) to the instance in the SQL Server Configuration Manager it did work. I had tried the Browser Service as well but couldn't get that to work so that's when I tried just tried using the default port of 1433. I think some how even though I updated my firewall it just didn't work somehow. And everything is local so I wouldn't think that I would need to update the ports but I did. Also the weird thing is that when using the default port, it uses our old database name. Thank you.