TDM - Connection Profile creation, unable to use the SQL Server NTLM authentication

Products

• CA Test Data Manager (Data Finder / Grid Tools)

Issue/Introduction

Connection Profile creation, unable to use the SQL Server AD account authentication.

When we try to use Domain_name\Username, getting an error as "You can use only letters, numbers, underscores, dashes, $, # and $ here"

Environment

Release : 4.10

Resolution

Please change the user name to  as username@DomainName to validate the NTLM authentication.