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Maya reached over and popped the disc into an external USB DVD burner — an antique even in 2006, but the DL380's internal drive had stopped reading dual-layer media three firmware revisions ago.

And its ISO — the perfect, slipstreamed, 32-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition image — would sit on a dusty external hard drive in Leo's basement until 2024, when his daughter would ask, "Dad, what's a 'boot sector'?" Maya reached over and popped the disc into

Leo opened nLite on his battered ThinkPad T43. The tool that let you slipstream service packs, drivers, and even strip out components — Windows Media Player, MSN Explorer, the games nobody installed on a domain controller. The tool that turned a 600 MB ISO into a custom 380 MB lightning bolt of server-grade minimalism. The tool that turned a 600 MB ISO

The DL380 rebooted. The POST screen flashed: "HP ProLiant — 4 GB RAM — 2 x Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz — Smart Array 6i — 5 logical drives." The one that hadn't changed since Windows 2000

The blue text-mode setup screen appeared. The one that hadn't changed since Windows 2000. The one that said "Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition" in stark white letters on a background that felt like a 1990s corporate training video.

Maya leaned back. "You know, 2008 is only two years away. Longhorn Server. The one with the new kernel, the new UI, the new everything."

He clicked Start → Run → "dcpromo". The Active Directory Installation Wizard fired up.