Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Server Core is a “minimalist” installation of Server 2008 – it doesn’t even come with a graphical user interface! The idea is that you only install the services you need. The benefits of a Server Core ...

Businesses that want to increase the stability and security of their information systems and extend the useful life of older hardware should take a good, hard look at Server Core, an installation ...

We are going to be evaluating RC0 of Hyper-V from Microsoft. I personally want to install Windows Server 2008 (Server Core), but my coworker wants to install it with the GUI (Full Installation). What ...

One of the slew of announcements at Microsoft's TechEd 2007 yesterday was the addition of another Server Core role for Windows Server 2008—that of Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7). For those ...

Windows Server Core is the epitome of Microsoft's shift toward GUI-free. But since you can't beat a good dashboard, here's how to access the GUI remotely. Taking a cue from Linux, these days Microsoft ...

Microsoft released ServerCore with Windows Server 2008 as a GUI-less version of the Windows Server operating system, and while many of us fiddled with ServerCore, it really didn’t take off for ...

After chatting with my friend and fellow Microsoft MVP Allen White about Windows Server Core on a recent SQLCruise.com excursion, I realized that this is a technology I should be evangelizing more. I ...

It's certainly not for everyday users, and I learned that within the first ten minutes ...