I ran into another issue today where I needed to have IIS (Internet Information Services) installed on a Windows XP Home machine for testing. I’m actually wanting to install SQL Server Express 2005 to test out some applications and development tasks.
SQL Server Express 2005 needs IIS to run. Why didn’t they make it easily possible for me to install IIS onto a Windows XP Home machine?
I did find this link on how to hack around the IIS installation restrictions and settings on Windows XP Home, but it’s really stupid to have to hack a licensed install for an application to …read more

One of the current projects we’re working on involves a large database. The initial project was to optimize and clean-up an existing Access database application. However, as we’ve gotten involved in the project it’s expanded to include more features, larger requirements and more potential users.
We initially asked about migrating the database over to a full SQL Server 2005 solution, but ran into some resistance for a variety of concerns, one of which was cost of setting up and installing SQL Server 2005.
We then started to take another look at potentially using SQL Server 2005 Express edition as the solution for …read more