Been fighting with a QuickBooks database server that wouldn’t start. Frustrating. Event viewer is showing:

Incorrect function.

QuickBooksDB33
Could not start server

Was also showing SQLANY64 17.0

Turns out it was a port conflict with the DNS Server. Fix is:

     a. Stop the DNS Server service, and the QuickBooksDB## service.

     b. Reserve the port using an elevated command prompt: netsh int ipv4 add excludedportrange protocol=udp startport=55368 numberofports=5

     c. then start both services