\nI like to read the readme files. There's often juicy little tidbits of info in there that won't show up by searching the BOL (that's why there's a readme in the first place). In SQL Server 2005 there 3 “readme” files: requirements, readme, and “addendum to the readme” (available on web via a link in the readme). In the requirements file (ok, so I'm not done yet), this caught my eye:\n<\/p>\n
\n“Native Web Service (SOAP\/HTTP) support is only available for instances of SQL Server 2005 running on Windows 2003”\n<\/p>\n
\nReason this interested me is that, AFAIK, the technical requirement for HTTP in SQL Server 2005 is an OS that supports HTTP.sys, that is the kernel-mode HTTP stack. But Windows XPSP2 supports this too. During the beta, it was listed as OK, and the devs even answered newsgroup questions on problems with that configuration.\n<\/p>\n
\nSo I deduce what this means is, although SOAP\/HTTP would technically work on XPSP2, its not officially supported, i.e. don't call tech support with your problems when using this configuration.\n<\/p>\n
\nOr am I reading too much into one sentence in a readme file?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I like to read the readme files. There's often juicy little tidbits of info in there that won't show up by searching the BOL (that's why there's a readme in the first place). In SQL Server 2005 there 3 “readme” files: requirements, readme, and “addendum to the readme” (available on web via a link in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-2005"],"yoast_head":"\n