I'm introducing myself to Active Directory/2k3 Server by implementing a domain for my father's business, hopefully negating some future support headaches. It's a small four user environment, all XP ...

I second Afidel here, you do get the right to run two windows server VM's on a piece of physical hardware per license, and the Hyper-V role doesn't count against that. So doing a P2V into Hyper-V of ...

Update March 22: Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix this known issue. The March 2024 Windows Server updates are causing some domain controllers to crash and restart, ...