Connecting to SQL Server with Windows authentication

To connect to SQL Server with Windows Authentication, you must be logged into a domain-joined computer as a domain user. After launching SQL Server Management Studio, choose Windows Authentication as the authentication type, as shown following.

Connect to SQL Server using Windows Authentication

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Managing a DB instance in a Domain

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