[dba-Tech] Vista question

Hi Arthur:

I had to move a client from Home Edition to Professional so they could use
IIS, about a month ago. We must have spent a month trying to get IIS running
on the Home Edition and even with various hacks, that were stating to make
it unstable. It may be possible on HE but I would not bet on it.

Professional XP is my recommendation a cheap IIS server.

Jim  

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Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:16 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Vista question

It came with the new notebook. That's the only reason. I may roll it back to
XP but I thought I'd play with it for a few days, and the eye candy is
definitely seductive (I acknowledge that that makes me sound like soooo
trivial) and I just wanted to explore it, but there are so many commands
that I can't find that I think I have to 'fess up and admit that I'm an old
fart. Before I give up, however, I'm going to try the VMWare approach and
maybe back-install XP just so I have some idea where the commands lurk.

I still can't find "Start|Run". Maybe it's different on Vista|Home. I'm also
frightened that Home version won't support IIS, which is essential for
Reporting Services. Yikes. What have I got myself into here? I wanted an
upgrade, but it's beginning to look as if I need a downgrade.

Longing for the times when software was relatively simple.

A.

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