Many of the preceding sections, as well as information you may see in various other places, use terminology such as, "supported by Microsoft" or "officially supported". It is important to understand the distinction made between what is officially supported by Microsoft versus what will technically work.
There are many configurations that will fail on a pre-installation compatibility check or return an error during installation. This is the easier scenario to deal with, because you have no choice at that point. However, many configurations may be technically possible, but not supported by Microsoft or may fail in the future. For example, if you had Dynamics GP 9.0 and upgraded to SQL Server 2008, everything kept working fine. However, if you tried to create a new company or went to upgrade to a newer Dynamics GP version, you would get an error that you were on a non-compatible SQL Server version.
Configurations that are not officially supported may...