So I finally decided to do this thanks to, in no small part, the fact that you can download it straight from Microsoft and have 30 days of full use (or 120 if you do some other stuff mentioned there, which I intend to do shortly). But the old PC I was using as a Network Attached Storage (NAS) was a little too weak for this. However it is not too weak to become the new communications PC (running only Skype and Chrome). So begun the switch.

OLD SCHEME:
1. NAS: Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 512MB ram, Intel D865 Perl M/B, Siluro FX5600 (AGP)
2. CommsPC: AMD64 3200+, 1GB ram, MSI K9N Neo2 M/B, Sapphire Radeon X1950Pro (AGP)

NEW SCHEME:
1. WHS: Old CommsPC with the GPU from NAS as the WHS doesn’t require anything really.
2. CommsPC: Old NAS with the X1950Pro (because you never know… and it did provide me with a benefit I did not foresee at the beginning, more about that later)

• Stage 1: X1950 in the Pentium machine, all well, installed Skype and Chrome, sound check in Skype, done.
• Stage 2: Siluro in AMD machine.
• Problem 1: Machine will not start, not even bios. The MSI m/b would throw beeps, one long two short (code for error with VGA). So I removed the Siluro thinking it was toast and pulled into active service a retired Manli FX5200. Same problem. I was getting worried and upset. I knew Siluro worked, it was working in the NAS. Tried it again, still beeped. Changed the cards many times, for no good reason really, but as a trained PC user and builder my instincts were good and one time Siluro worked. Perhaps the AGP connector is getting peculiar in its old age…
• Problem 2: WHS bootable DVD would not boot. Well, not exactly, the system would find the bootable disc and it would seem to try to do it, but every time it did so, the VGA signal was getting cut off and the monitor would go to sleep since it detected no signal. This was much harder to figure out. Tried removing power consuming devices one by one till I was left with only the VGA and a hard drive. Didn’t help. Tried another DVD drive I had around, a Plextor reader (instead of the normal Phillips writer), still nothing. Many, many crazy things later I decided to go irrational. Again, for no reason, I changed the connection between VGA and Monitor from a D-Sub to a DVI. All worked fine. There goes the D-Sub connection of the card (broken or temperamental stuff start piling up).
• Stage 3: Installing the WHS.
• Problem 3: This was just a matter of personal preference, but when I build a system I like partitioning it. And I don’t like logical partitions all that much. So WHS complained that I did not have 65GB of space in the primary disk drive. Of course not, it was a WD 36GB Raptor. Remove that, change it with a WD 500GB disk, installation commenced.
  After very few input I had to give the installation starting working and never bothered me again. After about an hour I was confronted with a bare desktop and a warning to (paraphrasing) “please logoff and work from the Connection app from your other PCs as messing around locally can really screw up stuff, thank you”. Very well, but of course, I had to check it out first.
• Problem 4: No network installed. No worries, I said naively, run the Network setup wizard. It would not of course, and after the second time that the wizard simply vanished after I started it, I went to the System module in Control Panel. Ethernet card detected but not installed. This was really surprising, especially considering it had detected and installed the Siluro FX5600 perfectly. Why would a server know more about VGA cards (which can easily be substituted with a generic VGA driver since they are only needed for the initial setup as they go head-less for the remainder of their service) than NICs is beyond me. I downloaded the driver pack for the motherboard from the MSI website and put it in my USB stick. WHS saw the stick and I did an update driver for the NIC (stands for Network Interface Card, if you were wondering). WHS said there is no driver for it in the stick. Trying to calm down, I run the setup program from the stick, which specifically said that it would install the Ethernet driver. Finished fine, rebooting the system, still the driver was missing. I then thought to go to the source; searched for Realtek Gigabit drivers, found a driver pack, and that did the job. At long last.

Everything from then on was (and still is great). Pointed my PC to \\server\Software and found the installation for the WHS Connect app that allows management of the server. Too tired to do anything more, disconnected the server and put it back where the NAS was (hidden away with just power and net cable connected). Put the new Comms PC behind my TFTs and was suddenly overcome with a desire to use the ViewSonic’s vertical orientation feature. This will give me better view of documents and browsing which is now its sole purpose. The Sapphire helped immensely by using the CCC (Catalyst Control Center) to rotate the resolution and everything worked perfectly.