The information in your link appears to have allowed me to connect with a slight change. I had to change integratedSecurity to false, when it was true I got the error com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: This driver is not configured for integrated authentication.
For others out there who may be attempting to connect to a MS SQL (in this case 2008), here are the settings that worked for me.
Driver class name: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
Connection string: jdbc:sqlserver://10.165.3.192;database=ExternalLog;integratedSecurity=false;
Username: database login UID
Password: database login PW
Of course, you'll have to customize the connection string to your database server name/IP and database name.
Thanks Matt!