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A few months ago, I wrote a post on customising Windows Server 2008 Server Core and Michael Armstrong tipped me off about a cool utility, written by former MVP Guy Teverovsky, called Core Configurator . I say former MVP, because Guy has given up that...
PowerShell evangelist (and Microsoft deployment guru) David Saxon dropped me a note this morning to let me know that Quest Software's Dmitry Sotnikov has got PowerShell running on Server Core . Nice work Dmitry. It's not a supported configuration...
Aaron Parker saw my presentation on Windows Server 2008 server core earlier this week and it got him thinking... I said that Microsoft don't see server core as an application platform but there's no real reason why not as long as the applications...
I just wanted to say "thank you" to everyone who came along to one of our sessions at today's Community Day at the Microsoft Campus in Reading. I hope you enjoyed it - and please leave feedback on the UK User Groups website (the feedback...
A few months back, I wrote a post with a few commands to get started with server core on Windows Server 2008. Since then, I've had some fun tweaking server core installations (including some cheekiness installing third party web servers and browsers...
The whole point of the server core installation mode for Windows Server 2008 is a reduced attack surface - no Windows Explorer, no Internet Explorer, no .NET Framework. That's all well and good but sometimes it's useful to download a file over...
Scotty wrote: Mark mailed me last night to ask about my crib sheet for Core Server but as it was Friday evening was taking a rest from the digital world. A hour and a half later he mailed me back to say he had found all he needed. Now this was from the...
Microsoft's James O'Neill wrote about how: "Some bright spark tried running Apache on [Windows Server 2008 Server] Core and having no special Windows dependencies it works." I couldn't find any references to this elsewhere on the...