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AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Listener, Named Instances, Port Numbers, etc.

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First published on MSDN on Feb 03, 2014 Authored by Sanjay Mishra Author : Sanjay Mishra Reviewers : David...
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Please note that port 98765 is just a sample. Max port is 65535 so in reality this is not a valid port.