http://blogs.technet.com/b/clive_watson/archive/2008/11/03/running-active-directory-in-a-virtual-machine-sql.aspxOk...so in the last 3 weeks I've been asked this numerous times (and to save emailing it again!), the article you need is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888794/en-us .&#160; I guess just recently we've seen a step up in the workloads being virtualizeden-GBTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/clive_watson/archive/2008/11/03/running-active-directory-in-a-virtual-machine-sql.aspx#3146556Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:16:45 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3146556Running Active Directory in a Virtual machine + SQL | MS Tech News<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://mstechnews.info/2008/11/running-active-directory-in-a-virtual-machine-sql/">http://mstechnews.info/2008/11/running-active-directory-in-a-virtual-machine-sql/</a></p> <img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3146556" width="1" height="1">