mssql sql windows php iis

Hi everyone.

Wanted to let you know that we've just released Drupal 7 for Windows+IIS+MSSQL out on http://microsoft.com/web/drupal This distro, built by Commerce Guys comes pre-configured with the Drupal SQL Server Module. When you install this, our installer will check your system and install MS SQL Express and PHP if you need it automatically.

Good News, a new fastCGI driver: http://www.iis.net/php

And here's the link to the new SQL Server driver (preview release): http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/php/default.mspx

Now there's native support for PHP that will save us from having to deal with freeTDS and other things, for example, the current limitation between PHP and SQL Server where it limits the length of text pulled from a varchar to 255. I currently have to change any varchar(255) and over to TEXT to avoid this issue.