You know I'm in the "dedicate DCs as DCs only" camp, so I would prefer to consider a virtual SQL Express server running under the DC as the host. With Windows licenses now allowing you to run 1 or ...

I'm looking to stand up the first Server 2012 R2 domain controller on the domain. I've messed with Server 2008 Core before and found the hassle of not having a GUI to not be worth the trade off. I've ...