SQL Server - Developer Edition - Downgrade to standard edition

Hi,
So the developer edition is a great way to setup a dev and test environment for pretty much nothing. But it is fully featured as an Enterprise Edition.
Now, we are using Standard Edition on our production servers.
Is it possible to install Developer Edition with only the standard edition features ?
Or to buy the developer licences and install standard edition for the test environment ?
The risk being that our devs use enterprise editions in the dev environment that would not work in production and thus add dev cycles.
Thanks

Hello,
Probably you can block the use of some enterprise features using Policy Based Management.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510667.aspx
http://www.sqlcoffee.com/SQLServer2008_0010.htm
Hope this helps.
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Alberto Morillo
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