All, I have been searching for the past 3 hours and can not find much on building a test lab from a production 2003 AD environment. I have located the following link: http://briandesmond.com/blog/archive/2003/11/25/251.aspx <http://briandesmond.com/blog/archive/2003/11/25/251.aspx> In NT4 I could just build a BDC and promote it to PDC off the wire and go from there... I can not believe that Microsoft doesn't have a post regarding best practices for doing this with an AD environment. I do not expect someone to tell me how to do this - just looking for references on the web that can support the steps listed in the site I have provided. Regards, Chris