After a nice festive season I came back to thousands of errors logged in event viewer for the above error:
Seems like this error only started occurring after the recent windows updates released. Never the less you can need to check if Named Pipes is enabled in SQL Configuration and you can run the following command in SQL Management Studio:
USE master
GO
GRANT VIEW SERVER STATE TO “DomainUserAccount”
GO
The errors should stop being logged in the application log.
Hope it helps
