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Windows Server Core

Autor brendon

Well money where my mouth is;

I have always been a big fan of Novel NetWare’s design. Run your server as nothing more than a device that serves clients, use a client device to administer the server. Reducing the load and preventing admins from doing nasty things to server Operating Systems.

With the RTM of Windows 2008 server last Tuesday (for us in Australia) I took it upon myself to download and start familiarising myself with the OS over the weekend. While it still looks and feels like windows, there are some big differences in the administration side of things. Particularly on the ‘Windows Server Core’ installation.

 Never before had I thought ‘I wonder how to change the screen resolution with a command prompt.’ Suffusive to say I will be doing a lot of research on command lines for server configurations.

For those that don’t know, NetSH will let you configure the IP address of the server and NetDom will join it to a domain.