Godfrey,
Thank you for posting your personal experience with using SQL 2005 on SBS
2003. I suspect it might be a little early for their happy marriage. Based
on your experience and my suspicions, I think I will wait on deploying SQL
2005.
Thanks,
Bob
"Godfrey Nicholson" <godfrey at ofektech dot com> wrote in message
news:0B91C667-40B0-4309-BCC6-D0A1EFCB27D8@microsoft.com...
> Hi Bob:
>
> I installed SQL2005 as a part of VisualStudio2005. The installation went
> OK
> and both SQL servers ran.
>
> However, the installation of SQL2005 appeared to break a number of the
> SBS2003 uses of SQL, e.g. with ISA2004 and Sharepoint (I think).
>
> I eventually concluded I had been reckless to try installing SQL2005 (the
> burden of being an "early adopter") and uninstalled it. I eventually had
> to
> reinstall SBS2003. Firtunately this was not on a production server.
>
> I subsequently googled out some confessions from MSFT that there were
> unresolved issues with 2005 running on SBS2003. As we say here, "Bugger!"
>
> I hope they get these resolved as I want to use VStudio .Net 2005
>
> Godfrey
>
>
>
>
> --
> Godfrey Nicholson
> Ofek Technologies Ltd
> Auckland 1001
> New Zealand
> godfrey at ofektech dot com
>
>
> "Bob Genestet" wrote:
>
>> Is Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 compatible with SBS 2003 Standard
>> Edition?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> >> Stay informed about: Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 and SBS 2003 Standard Ed.. 
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