Any Microsoft Server experts here?

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Make your C: drive BIG. like 50Gb or more. You'll be crying later if you don't, plain and simple. Best practices say to keep datafiles and other services locked down in other partitions, but in all honesty, I've been doing flat c: drives for the last year or so, it is just too much of a PITA to rebuild a box because I ran out of space on one of the partitions. Just silly.

Windows directory permissions are better than they were five years ago.