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Problem:

When trying to start the debugger in SQL Server Management Studio, I received the error: Unable to start T-SQL Debugging.  Could not attach to SQL Server process on ‘%dbservername%’.  Click Help for more information.

Solution:

Configure the database engine service with a Domain user account, or more specifically, an account that can be authenticated from the machine that is running Management Studio.  I noticed in a Wireshark trace on my pc that a NTLM call was being made with the account of the database engine service.

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