diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 521807af40..b94f2bfd6e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 45
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        db: [postgres, mysql, oracle] # 'mariadb' is not always shutting down, 'mssql' container not available yet
+        db: [postgres, mysql, oracle, mssql] # 'mariadb' is not always shutting down
       fail-fast: false
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 877d69a03e..a4ccd4d2fb 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
         <postgresql-jdbc.version>42.5.1</postgresql-jdbc.version>
         <mariadb.version>10.3.27</mariadb.version>
         <mariadb-jdbc.version>2.7.2</mariadb-jdbc.version>
-        <mssql.version>2019-CU10-ubuntu-20.04</mssql.version>
+        <mssql.version>2019-latest</mssql.version>
         <mssql-jdbc.version>9.2.0.jre8</mssql-jdbc.version>
         <!-- this is the oracle driver version also used in the Quarkus BOM -->
         <oracle-jdbc.version>21.5.0.0</oracle-jdbc.version>
diff --git a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/pom.xml b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/pom.xml
index bbe6828fde..1e7bb6cd01 100644
--- a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/pom.xml
+++ b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/pom.xml
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@
                 <keycloak.connectionsJpa.database>keycloak</keycloak.connectionsJpa.database>
                 <keycloak.connectionsJpa.user>sa</keycloak.connectionsJpa.user>
                 <keycloak.connectionsJpa.password>vEry5tron9Pwd</keycloak.connectionsJpa.password>
-                <keycloak.connectionsJpa.url>jdbc:sqlserver://${auth.server.db.host}:${docker.database.port};databaseName=${keycloak.connectionsJpa.database}</keycloak.connectionsJpa.url>
+                <keycloak.connectionsJpa.url>jdbc:sqlserver://${auth.server.db.host}:${docker.database.port};databaseName=${keycloak.connectionsJpa.database};integratedSecurity=false;encrypt=false;trustServerCertificate=true;sendStringParametersAsUnicode=false;</keycloak.connectionsJpa.url>
                 <!-- Map Store JPA -->
                 <keycloak.map.storage.connectionsJpa.url>${keycloak.connectionsJpa.url}</keycloak.map.storage.connectionsJpa.url>
                 <keycloak.map.storage.connectionsJpa.user>${keycloak.connectionsJpa.user}</keycloak.map.storage.connectionsJpa.user>
diff --git a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/main/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/model/StoreProvider.java b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/main/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/model/StoreProvider.java
index 29faf419f5..09107e681c 100644
--- a/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/main/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/model/StoreProvider.java
+++ b/testsuite/integration-arquillian/tests/base/src/main/java/org/keycloak/testsuite/model/StoreProvider.java
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ public enum StoreProvider {
             commands.add("--db-url='" + System.getProperty("keycloak.connectionsJpa.url") + "'");
             commands.add("--db-username=" + System.getProperty("keycloak.connectionsJpa.user"));
             commands.add("--db-password=" + System.getProperty("keycloak.connectionsJpa.password"));
+            if ("mssql".equals(getDbVendor().orElse(null))){
+                commands.add("--transaction-xa-enabled=false");
+            }
         }
     },
     DEFAULT("default") {