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I created this group to see what kind of interest there is in running Drupal 7 on a Windows environment. There is already a group to dedicated to Drupal on IIS, which has a good following of people interested in getting Drupal running under Microsoft's Internet Information Servier. The group is mostly focused on Drupal 6, and has some good content.

I wanted a group to discuss the specific issues around running Drupal 7 on Windows, particularly the use of Microsoft's SQL Server as a replacement for MySQL. This is made possible by the work done by a team at Microsoft that wrote a driver for SQL Server, and then packaged up the whole thing as an installable item.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is very pleased to announce our newly-redesigned, SQL Server-powered Drupal Web site! Our site exemplifies the power and flexibility of Drupal. It is also speaks to the quality of community that helps develop, instruct, and support the Drupal project. Without this exceptional and active community, our site would not have been possible. We're continually working to improve our site and welcome your feedback. (Sorry for the delay, I had promised this write up a while ago but have just now had the time to put it together).

原文来自：一拍城市生活，从Drupal 6到微软的OS

对于Drupal社区的“水滴”们，近期瞩目的重要事件就是Drupal 6。对我们这些四处飘遥的华人，这个版本新的发布似乎比春节大假更有吸引力，是我们不够传统么。

每个人都在关注Drupal 6～ 从近期在北京、西雅图和温哥华三个城市参加的的Drupal社区聚会中的谈论主题和问答焦点，都可以清晰感知。这里问个为什么？为什么Drupal 6会吸引这么多的关注？

So, I've had some free time latley, and I've started back on the database API layers (DB2 and SQL Server currently).
However, I have found 2 disturbing issues.

Overview
First, I'm currently exploring the following 3 ways to connect to sql server:
1. FreeTDS
2. php_mssql driver
3. MSFT SQL Driver ( See pcorbetts posting for a link to the driver )

1. PHP 5.2.5 breaks support for SQL Server

Ok, so I finally got around to it. Drupal 5.0 (6.0-dev) MS SQL support. I am hoping this thread can be a sort of 'behind the scenes' working group with official patches posted to Drupal.org.

NOTE: This has been tested with:

• PHP 5.1.6
• SQL Server Standard 2005
• ntwdblib.dll v. 2000.80.194.0 (you will need this updated version and not the one that comes with your php install)

With that said, on to the patch. It is definalty a hefty one at 51KB. So, a quick over-view of what it does.
First, a few files have been added:

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See here:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Yahoo_and_Microsoft_rally_behind_sitema...

There is now a very compelling reason to polish (and use) the sitemaps module that we had developed in 2005 as a Summer of Code project.