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2003 does not support clustering - you need enterprise.
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2003 does not support clustering - you need enterprise.

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I am wanting to setup a 2 node cluster for SQL 2005 on the windows 2003 standard operating system. &nbsp;Will this work or do I HAVE to have Windows 2003 enterprise?
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I am wanting to setup a 2 node cluster for SQL 2005 on the windows 2003 standard operating system.  Will this work or do I HAVE to have Windows 2003 enterprise?

SQL 2005 Standard Windows 2003 Standard Cluster

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).