Drupal works just fine on Windows 2003 Server. The hardest part is getting PHP to run on IIS 6/2003, which requires a lot of tweaking. I highly recommend Peter Guy's documentation on this at http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html.
I won't touch fullblown SQL, other than to say that it would be s big undertaking to get Drupal to run with MS SQL, particularly if you were to use any database dependent modules. On the plus side, Drupal uses a database abstraction layer, so most of the work would be in writing the database.mssql file. If you did this, you would make the MS SQL folks on the Drupal site happy.
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Drupal works just fine on
Drupal works just fine on Windows 2003 Server. The hardest part is getting PHP to run on IIS 6/2003, which requires a lot of tweaking. I highly recommend Peter Guy's documentation on this at http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html.
I won't touch fullblown SQL, other than to say that it would be s big undertaking to get Drupal to run with MS SQL, particularly if you were to use any database dependent modules. On the plus side, Drupal uses a database abstraction layer, so most of the work would be in writing the database.mssql file. If you did this, you would make the MS SQL folks on the Drupal site happy.
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company