>I've been forced to use the Express version because I cannot get the Standard Edition of 2005 to install on Vista Ultimate.
See this link:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1002816&SiteID=1I only scanned this, but SP2 appears to be supported on Vista, but of course, you need to install the release version prior to sp2. Root issue appears to be IIS7 must be installed.
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