"David Berry" <dbe***@mvps.org> wrote in message news:upG%23kW$WHHA.5008@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I just ran the Vista upgrade advisor and it says the following might have issues:
>
> Microsoft SQL Server Setup Support Files (English)
>
> Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
>
> Both are for SQL Server 2005.  Are there patches available?
>
>
>
>

"David Berry" <dbe***@mvps.org> wrote in message
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>I just ran the Vista upgrade advisor and it says the following might have
>issues:
>
> Microsoft SQL Server Setup Support Files (English)
>
> Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
>
> Both are for SQL Server 2005.  Are there patches available?
>
>
>
>

"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" <ten.xoc@dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
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> You will need SQL Server 2005 SP2 before you should run the services/tools
> on Vista.
>
> FWIW, I have two Vista machines:
>
> (a) an upgrade to Ultimate from XP Pro
> (b) a clean install
>
> On (a) I could never get SQL Server dev edition or even the client tools
> to install.
>
> On (b) it worked no problem.  I got warnings about incompatibility when
> installing SQL Server but I didn't bother trying to start the service
> until after I installed SP2.
>
> --
> Aaron Bertrand
> SQL Server MVP
> http://www.sqlblog.com/
> http://www.aspfaq.com/5006
>
>
>
>
> "David Berry" <dbe***@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:upG%23kW$WHHA.5008@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>I just ran the Vista upgrade advisor and it says the following might have
>>issues:
>>
>> Microsoft SQL Server Setup Support Files (English)
>>
>> Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
>>
>> Both are for SQL Server 2005.  Are there patches available?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" <ten.xoc@dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
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>> Wonderful.  I was worried about my 3rd party apps running on Vista.  I
>> *thought* MS apps wouldn't be my main issue.  ....... sigh
>
> In addition to SQL Server, I had issues with IIS and Windows Live OneCare
> on the XP machine I upgraded.
>
> The only non-Microsoft problem I had was with nvidia drivers causing so
> many blue screens and inexplicable black screens / power downs that the
> machine is unusable.  Of course, nvidia blames that on Microsoft, too.
>
> A
>
>

"Geoff N. Hiten" wrote:

> And just to give a different perspective, I did an upgrade from XP media
> center to Vista Ultimate with pretty much no problems.  SQL 2005 worked fine
> but the client tools required patching to SP2.  I have an ATI graphics card
> that has gotten pretty good support from both Dell and ATI.  It took me a
> while to figure out how to get Trillian to stop breaking Aqua
> (bsp,bsp,bsp,bsp) Aero, but things have been pretty stable. Only issue I
> have is with Offline files not working quite up to par, but I think that may
> be due to a server issue, not a Vista issue.
>
> --
> Geoff N. Hiten
> Senior Database Administrator
> Microsoft SQL Server MVP
>
>
>
>
> "Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" <ten.xoc@dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
> news:epPHxNEXHHA.2052@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >> Wonderful.  I was worried about my 3rd party apps running on Vista.  I
> >> *thought* MS apps wouldn't be my main issue.  ....... sigh
> >
> > In addition to SQL Server, I had issues with IIS and Windows Live OneCare
> > on the XP machine I upgraded.
> >
> > The only non-Microsoft problem I had was with nvidia drivers causing so
> > many blue screens and inexplicable black screens / power downs that the
> > machine is unusable.  Of course, nvidia blames that on Microsoft, too.
> >
> > A
> >
> >
>
>