SQL 101 - Notification Services

My number one tip for those considering setting up a Notification Services application....

...stop.

Now, I love MS and most of their products...but not this one. Difficult to set up, no GUI at all for even basic tasks, and almost nobody inside MS Support (as of October 2006 anyway) knows the product well enough to talk reasonably about it. Best of my knowledge there are only three books on it. Having one made me the "expert" at PSS on my last contract, until you got to a tech lead or escalation person.

So...don't. Its deprecated anyway, so that alone should be reason enough. :)

Kevin3NF