Administering Windows Server 2008 Server Core John Paul Mueller
Publisher: Sybex

But a third and preferable option for managing Windows Server is to download the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 8 and manage all your servers from a dedicated workstation. We recommend using RSAT to remotely manage your servers. In no time, you'll be an expert administering Windows Server 2008 roles and features and be ready to take Microsoft's MCTS exam 70-640. If you're working with Hyper-V, it's recommended that you use Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core for your root partition, as its stripped-down nature makes it a more secure option than it's more full-bodied sibling. You can find a complete table of all tools and what versions of roles and features they will manage on the TechNet Wiki. Windows Server 2008 Core has no GUI interface so you must know how to configure the basic network, unassisted, from the command line interface. Once you have Server 2008 Core installed and you are at the console command line, you need to make a number of basic networking and administrative configurations to get the server useable on the network and to allow it to be administered remotely. Not only does In addition, RSAT provides administrators with an easy way to manage Server Core. If you intend to manage Windows Server 2008 R2 with RSAT for Windows 8, you will need to install the following components on the server(s) you want to manage:. As you may have seen from TechEd 2007 announcements and recent Bill Staples' (IIS Product Unit Manager) blog, IIS7 is now supported on Server Core installation option of Windows Server 2008. In limited cases, the tools can be used to manage roles and features that are running on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003. One of the benefits is to use the GUI to manage servers that run the Server Core installation option of Windows Server. 9780470238400 - Administering: Windows Server® 2008 Server Core - Microsoft's new GUI-less Server Core is a command line version of Windows Server 2008 that offers better security, reduced size, and faster access. Learn how to do it, step Installing Windows Server 2008 Core). In two days, Windows expert, journalist, consultant and best-selling author Mark Minasi shows you what's changed from Server 2003 to Server 2008 — the good, the bad, the wonderful and the awful with a chuckle or two thrown in.