do you have any plugins like SSMS Tools installed? I can't prove it, but it seems to me that my connections get disconnected when not used for x minutes, and i didn't see (notice?) that behavior before for SQL2012's SSMS;
it might be that a plug in is iterating through your connections;
Lowell
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