The previous post got sidetracked (
http://www.techexams.net/forums/mcsa-mcse-windows-2003-general/44933-setting-up-lab-mcsa.html), but I just wanted to continue the discussion of setting up a lab....
In the previous post,120nm4n stated that VMWare has an virtual appliance of Windows 2003R2, great!!
But it looks like there are tons of problems in getting it to run, see:
VMware Communities: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition Virtual Appliance
AND, it looks like you have to use MS Virtual PC or MS Virtual Server

Has anyone got this to work with VMware alone?
My thoughts were to simply install VMware and run the 180d trial that comes with the MCSE Self Paced Books/CD's
(Sorry to post this here instead of Virtualization sub-forum - but this is where the original post originated)