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Thanks guys. As far as points or best answer, khairil has the most thorough answer, but I only think it is fair that the first answer that is correct receives the most points.<br />
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Please correct me if that is not proper etiquette. Thanks for the timely responses.
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Thanks guys. As far as points or best answer, khairil has the most thorough answer, but I only think it is fair that the first answer that is correct receives the most points.

Please correct me if that is not proper etiquette. Thanks for the timely responses.

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Hi experts,<br />
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A friend of mine who five computers connected to a machine running WIN 7 Pro in a peer-to-peer has an application which uses SQL Server 2005 Express as the database. He is only using this machine to run the one application. <br />
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He wants to know if he should run that machine as administrator or a user, keeping in mind that he will need to do backups. Not sure if it uses VSS. I know he will use Backup Assist with the SQL Server module.<br />
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Thanks in advance. Please let me know if you need more information. I don't see anything negative for running it as as admin user as long as he uses a strong username and password.
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Hi experts,

A friend of mine who five computers connected to a machine running WIN 7 Pro in a peer-to-peer has an application which uses SQL Server 2005 Express as the database. He is only using this machine to run the one application. 

He wants to know if he should run that machine as administrator or a user, keeping in mind that he will need to do backups. Not sure if it uses VSS. I know he will use Backup Assist with the SQL Server module.

Thanks in advance. Please let me know if you need more information. I don't see anything negative for running it as as admin user as long as he uses a strong username and password.

WIN 7 Pro as a server

Windows 7 is an operating system from Microsoft. Features include multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, referred to as the Superbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements.

Windows 7

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.