Any of 17 roles with features can be seleted to build a server on Windows Server 2008 (EE) machine. For testing purpose, I need to create a lab with as less virtual machines as possible. Do you have any suggustion for which roles can be set on one server without any issue? Thanks.

Hi Ian3,Selecting roles depends on your requirement. So you need to look at your requirement and then select the appropriate roles , if you can give us more information as to what are you testing , we could tell you what services / roles are required.

I started off setting up DC1 and ISA1 connecting Internet and internal network. Next I need to build / test following services:1. Terminal Server farm, TSFarm1 with 2 notes: TS1 and TS22. TS Session Broker, Load Balancing3. TS Gateway4. Network Policy Server5. Network Access Protection6. RRAS/VPN/IPSec7. Enterprice CA8. RemoteApp9. TS Web AccessThanks

Hi ,Thanks for the information , The requirements are good and i would recommend you to isolate the DC from the above roles . There might be more than one thoughts for your setup , but here is what i would suggest.a) install CA on the DC b) TS related roles on one server c) RRAS VPN and IPSEC on another. By the above design you would have 3 VM's running in a single subnet would do good , but make sure you have appropriate routing done.Important Links===========The best way to start is download the step -by -step guides which would be handy http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=518d870c-fa3e-4f6a-97f5-acaf31de6dce&displaylang=en