Thanks for the input, it's appreciated!

!! do you think that was detrimental to your learning administration i.e. GPO etc.? I ask as I'm almost where you were when you started this a year +...

Hi Koen, I did the same thing turned off the firewall(s), but isn't the purpose of the inbound rule created in chapter 1 supposed to make that unnecessary??

Great article, I'm having a problem when creating the first vhd (DC)

keep getting a message "The server encountered an error trying to create the virtual hard disk." under Detail it...

"What would be the level of a user with more than 30,000 total points? "

Poorly written, as there are LevelS above 30,000 points......