Make sure you have DVD drives! We did an in place upgrade of all our domain controllers to get the fine grained password policies; recently one of the domain controllers hosed up and the repair from the DVD would have been a very helpful utility, but without a DVD ROM in the server we were left to rebuild the server from scratch and then a restore from backup, a much longer process than it should have been.
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