This is basically links to common issues that I have come across, but forget the solution or don’t need to blog:

• FSMO placement and optimization on Active Directory domain controllers (223346)
• How to back up Hyper-V virtual machines from the parent partition on a Windows Server 2008-based computer by using Windows Server Backup (958662)
• Reliability Monitor displays no information in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 (983386)
• Managing Active Directory FSMO Roles: here
• Download Locations for SQL Express 2008 R2