mjwood66

I'll second that on the new AD. I got my hands on a copy W2K3 Enterprise (I was helping the IT people with data recovery...some very important stuff on a destoyed system...took me a week, but I got the data for them). I took it home and now use it on a home server (complete overkill, I know). It is much easier to use than other things I have played with. AD makes it great, I can mange the computers on the network from one location. It also allows me to play with AD even more. The MSC sanp ins work great for AD.

I have converted four computers to Windows 2003 Desktop Workstations. I love it. More importantly, my wife loves it. The stability is incredible. I do see where there might be some problems with games, but most games I play ran on Windows 2000 Professional and have no problems on the W2K3. My wife plays those little Hoyle Board and Card Games and has no problem. Audio Grabber works flawlessly. Current systems include a Tyan Tiger 760 MPX, 1 Gig RAM, and MP 2800s, a Compaq Laptop (funny, it works far better than Win XP Home or Professional ever did), two Shuttle Boxes with nForce 2 chipsets, 256 Megs of RAM (integrated graphics), and Athlon XP 2000s. I am actually using it as a server on a Gigabyte 100 FSB board with a Duron 1300 and 784 Megabytes of RAM. One thing that I did not was that W2K3 handles the integrated nForce 2 graphics far better than Windows XP did. Also, the Compaq Laptop is far more "zippier" now. I'll lose a few applications in order to finally have a rock solid windows.