Backward Compatiblity of Management Studio

I'm relatively new to SQL Server. I have spent some time in Enterprise Manager for our SQL Server 2000 instances. We are testing SQL Server 2005, and I found that I was able to register 2000 databases into the new SQL Server 2005 Management Studio.

My question: Why not switch immediately to SQL Server 2005 Management Studio for managing all of our old 2000 instances, as well as the new 2005 instances are they are built/upgraded/migrated?

You can certainly do that, but not everything works. For one thing, the "reports" tab in SSMS won't work against SQL 2K, because 2K doesn't contain any of the dynamic management views to make it work. SSMS also can't edit the DTS packages in SQ, or work with some of the maintance plans.

If all that's OK, by all means go ahead and use it.

Buck Woody