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i am about to acquire a &quot;broken&quot; server (has some kind of hardware issue). &nbsp;i believe the server is currently running NT.<br />
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assuming i can fix the problem, if the server's hardware can handle it, i'd like to load it with Windows Server 2003. &nbsp;i currently have no test server, so i'd like to make this one. &nbsp;but, i can't justify a full Server 2003 license just for a test server.<br />
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how do people do this? &nbsp;do they really buy a full version of Server 2003 just for a test box?
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i am about to acquire a "broken" server (has some kind of hardware issue).  i believe the server is currently running NT.

assuming i can fix the problem, if the server's hardware can handle it, i'd like to load it with Windows Server 2003.  i currently have no test server, so i'd like to make this one.  but, i can't justify a full Server 2003 license just for a test server.

how do people do this?  do they really buy a full version of Server 2003 just for a test box?

Testing Server

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).