Installing Windows Server 2003 - Member Server

Installing Microsoft software - Guy's degree of difficulty

Hardest Install= 10

9 Exchange 2003

7 SQL 2000

6 NT 4.0

4 Windows 2000

3 Windows 2003 Server

2 XP

Easiest Install = 0

Quick, slow, quick quick slow, that is how the install seemed. The menus were very like XP with excellent PnP and comprehensive driver support.
All the questions that the wizard asked were straightforward and easy to answer.
You gona like the timer screen telling you how long to go. there could be a second clock to tell me how long until the next user intervention. What happened to me was I left with 34 minutes remaining only to return half an hour later with a screen asking me to choose a time zone, and still 29 minutes to go.
As I am nearly always online, the product activation was easy, slick and asked for no personal information.
For many years my cry has been: 'You never have a big enough C:\ drive', this time I went for 10GB. (After 3 days I had used 6.5GB)

Post installation considerations
Check the system logs in the event viewer. Then plan the role for your member server.

A long time ago I started with Windows v 2.0 and each Microsoft product since has its own personality, what struck me first with Windows Server 2003 was that it wanted me to tune it for a particular role: File and Print, Application or Domain Controller.

Now You are Ready to go with the Second Step : Installing Active Directory