So I have a bunch of domain controllers and a bunch of FSMO roles that I have to place. What do I do? Well, MS says to do the following based on their support article here which is summarized below:

I recently purchased a Linksys WMA11B on the cheap off of eBay. The goal was to connect my Iomega StorCenter to it, but haven't yet crossed that bridge. One bridge I have crossed though, is installing the software on my Vista SP1 host. Out of the box the "driver" downloaded from Linksys installed with no problems. I was prompted to install .NET 1.0 which completed with no problem.

Have you ever been troubleshooting IIS and need to check out the access log files? As you know by default they live at in System32\Logfiles under your Windows directory. There are plenty of ways to get there...type the path in the run dialog. Open explorer and browse there. But during a call with MS PSS the other day, I learned a handy shortcut. In the run dialog, type 'logfiles' and you will instantly open the System32\Logfiles folder. There are more logfiles here besides IIS generated ones...but that seems to be the best known.

Happy hunting, and hope this saved you some time!

When you have multiple (or even one) virtual machines hosted on a server, you should take steps to ensure recovery in the event your host server reboots or crashes resulting in the virtual server services restarting.

First, create a regular user account that you will use to start the servers. This account should have limited privileges and will need to be assigned to rights. At the time of this writing, the directions provided by Microsoft do cover quite all of the steps and permissions required. I have summarized the entire process below.