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Change Server Core Page File

Autor brendon | 24.03.2008 | Category Server, ServerCore, TechStuff

Fragmented page files have been known to drastically effect system performance and when you have servers hosting connections for hundreds of users this is not a good thing. When building servers for numerous customers it has been common practice to hard set a page file to 1.5x RAM size (To a maximum of 4GB).

Seeing how System Properties is missing from Windows Server Core, changing the size and allocation of the page file has become a little more involved.

Change Server Core Screen Resolution

Autor brendon | 22.03.2008 | Category Server, ServerCore, TechStuff

This may seem like a trivial and un-important task but if the server installs with a screen resolution of 800×600 and the screen’s optimum resolution is 1024×768 or 1280×1024 how do you change it?

You can’t just open up ‘Control Panel -> Desktop’ or run ‘control desk.cpl‘ as they don’t work. Read on for the instructions.

Useful Windows Server Core Commands

Autor brendon | 22.03.2008 | Category Server, ServerCore, TechStuff

Well there are so many different commands needed to manage server core that remembering them all will certainly take a while. In the mean time I will keep this post updated with all the useful commands I have come across for configuring a server.

If you have any other suggestions please post them as a comment.

Windows Server Core

Autor brendon | 11.02.2008 | Category Server, ServerCore, TechStuff

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.