1. SQL Server Windows Vista TM & Windows Server Longhorn Brad Sarsfield (bradsa@microsoft.com) Test Lead, SQL Server

2. Agenda What is supported SQL’s Strategy; how we did it Running SQL on Windows Vista, Longorn Server New with Windows Vista and SQL

3. What is supported Production: SQL Server TM 2005 SP2 Testing: SQL Server 2005 SP1 + Windows Vista Beta 2 today Upgrade: Migrate MSDE to SQLExpress Upgrade tools/resources available

4. Our strategy 1.Make sure it works in XP/WS2K3 2.Test with UAC off x86, x64, x64WOW 3.Turn it on, see what breaks Test automation Product features 4.Provision users explicitly for your application and grant rights as needed 5.Work though updates and adding new Windows Vista feature support 6.Virtualization

5. SQL works well with Windows Vista Networking (IPv6) Full Text Search Reporting Services IIS Install is Different (KB 920201) User access control and Security..

6. User Account Control Being an admin no longer gets you into SQL! Built in Administrator account is disabled SQL Group Membership required Provision SQL accounts Explicitly grant access to resources Do not rely on BUILTIN\Administrators to check if application is running non-elevated Do not change the security policy for UAC Do not silently elevate applications with admin token

7. User Account Control Service Control: Provision access to control service (KB 325349) Users can not perform service control (start/stop/account change) Global objects are restricted to Admins as before You can now access via standard users If provisioned

8. User Account Control Summary Create your own users; grant them permissions to only what they need (you will need to do this)

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