Keeping in the spirit of my blog title "Tangent Thoughts" this is another Tangent to my recent post " Known Issues for Upgrading Active Directory to Windows Server 2008R2 from Windows 2003 ". This post has two parts: 1. Everything you ever wanted to know about troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2 ...

During an Active Directory Upgrade project, I have collected many links and reference articles around upgrading Active Directory from Windows Server 2003 R2 to Windows Server 2008 R2. Since these types of projects have now been around for awhile, there have been many lists compiled by Microsoft professionals...

There are many links out there that that will tell you what features or what roles you can get on either the full edition of Windows Server 2008 R2, OR on Windows Server 2008 R2 core only. But what I, and my customer wanted, was a nice list to compare the two side by side! So I made one. Later, I will...