I know this post is really old but we are having this same problem in our office. We are getting 4 to 5 drops a day. We have a total of about 15 computers accessing a very strong server that we just purchased. We had this problem in the past and figured a new server would fix it and it didn't. We currently have a full SQL system not express so that cant be the problem. I have been doing a little research on this problem and have found that the server does a auto disconnect after a period of time. I have changed the setting in the server to turn off auto disconnect. Has anyone else tried this and does it work? I am crossing my fingers.