>The web.config has only one line that somehow relates to this issue
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><authentication mode="Windows" />
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>So I am not sure why my test app looks for SQL Server connection.

Hi Dmitry,

Perhaps you can do some reading on this topic - it's a complex one, I think. Here are some links I used when I was getting familiar with it

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