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TCP Port Is Already In Use

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ChrisThompsonMSFT
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Mar 15, 2019
First published on MSDN on Oct 05, 2016 It's 3 AM on a Saturday morning and you receive that dreaded phone call – "The SQL Server just had maintenance. We rebooted and now SQL won't start"! You d...
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Jan 05, 2026

I have a quite large exclusion range 55732-59827 which i cannot figure out what is using it and as a result a program i need to run will not. The program i would like to run needs ports 57698,57699,57700 . tried everything AI told me to do with no luck. Can you help me?