After pondering a lot about what I should write today, I came with a few great subjects. Not the USB sticks that are still yet to arrive (Umm...Dutch customs? :P ), not Windows Vista RC2 which is due this friday, nor my thoughts about DRM enforcement on Zune. Today, I'm writing about "undocumented jumper settings". That's right, windows 2003 personal installations!

When a server is installed, it is meant to stand there and do whatever it was installed to do. So once you make a windows 2003 server run in microsoft virtual PC and install it to play ActiveDirectory boss, DHCP manager and DNS muncher, you shouldn't suddenly start expecting it to like IIS. Ok, maybe you might, but we couldn't. After we installed IIS and several other important services, we wanted to start a Certificate Authority after which we got really neat undocumented errors everywhere (error code 0x57 to be exact). And when we tried reinstalling, it just uninstalled twice just for the fun of it. You can't uninstall a single program often enough. Hit me again!

So after we installed, uninstalled, reinstalled, rebooted, reinstalled and then threw the whole computer out the window, we decided to just have a normal system run windows 2003 as it wasn't planning on working on MS' VPC.

And thankfully, we can expect the MSDN-AA "site" of Saxion to go up somewhere this week when Microsoft give their OK to it. After all, I was getting rather sick of hearing that students should just buy under a relatively expensive license (50 euro for an XP license) of a distributor in the middle while the faculty has multiple MSDN-AA licenses. Unfortunately, they couldn't give me details how I am going to be supposed to download it as student. But that'll come soon enough as I got many questions in store. :)