1. Navigate to the Backstage Actions Screen and click the SQL Servers button.
2. Click the Add button.
3. Choose Server type (Database Engine, Analysis Services, Integration Services, Reporting Services, Azure or All detected instances) and enter the Server name.
4. Specify credentials.
   • The currently supported authentication types are Windows Authentication and SQL Servers Authentication for Database Engine.
   • Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services only support Windows Authentication.
   • Azure only supports SQL Server Authentication.
5. Click OK.

Note: Manually added SQL Servers will have an orange circle next to the Server Type icon in the SQL Servers grid so you can easily distinguish them from auto-detected servers, which will have a blue circle next to the icon.