{"id":845,"date":"2007-07-16T15:07:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T14:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/windows-server-2008-server-core.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-19T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T14:07:58","slug":"windows-server-2008-server-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/windows-server-2008-server-core.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2008 Server Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winserverteam.org.uk\/blogs\/scotty\/\">Scotty McLeod<\/a> recently gave a presentation to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winserverteam.org.uk\/\">Windows Server UK User Group<\/a> on Windows Server 2008 Server Core.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/a-look-forward-to-windows-server-2008.htm\">I mentioned Server Core in a previous post<\/a> but here&#8217;s some more on the subject, based on Scotty&#8217;s presentation (it&#8217;s also worth checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/4sysops.com\/archives\/windows-server-longhorn-server-core-essentials\/\">Micheal Pietroforte&#8217;s post on Server Core essentials<\/a>).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contrary to popular belief, Server Core still has a GUI.  There is no Start Menu, no Explorer, no Internet Explorer (it is entirely command-line driven), but the logon screen is graphical and some GUI applications can be used (the latest beta includes an old version of <code>notepad.exe<\/code> that has very few dependencies and <code>rundll.exe<\/code> can be used to launch some GUI hooks).  It is rumoured that, because some of the product teams didn&#8217;t follow Microsoft&#8217;s own application development rules, it&#8217;s too difficult to remove the GUI from Windows without breaking it completely.<\/li>\n<li>At present, the Server Core image is about 600MB in size &#8211; small enough to facilitate some interesting potential deployment scenarios &#8211; and, because of its small size, Server Core installs quickly.<\/li>\n<li>The number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2008\/servercore.mspx\">supported roles for Server Core<\/a> is growing quickly &#8211; that could be seen as a potential weakness but even so, the basic principle of providing a reduced attack service for common server scenarios still holds true.  Interestingly, one of the roles (and <a href=\"http:\/\/4sysops.com\/archives\/server-core-supports-iis7-in-the-windows-server-2008-june-ctp-does-it-make-sense\/\">potentially the most problematic of them all<\/a>) is as an (IIS) web server &#8211; only for ISAPI\/ASP applications (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.iis.net\/bills\/archive\/2007\/06\/04\/iis7-on-server-core.aspx\">i.e. no .NET Framework &#8211; yet<\/a>) but rumour has it that Apache will also run on Server Core and a cut-down IIS allows the installation of PHP for a Windows alternative to a LAMP web server (this lends itself to an unfortunate acronym though &#8211; WIMP &#8211; Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP).<\/li>\n<li>Because there is no .NET Framework for Server Core at this time, there is no ability to run PowerShell scripts.<\/li>\n<li>After installation, Server Core has a blank administrator password.  This must be changed at logon but can be changed to another blank password; however keeping it blank will prevent remote access to the server.<\/li>\n<li>Core server has huge potential, but still seems to be a little disjointed on the administration front (ironic, given what a huge improvement has been made in the full installation through the introduction of the Server Manager tool) &#8211; it seems that the recommended approach is to use a full Windows Server 2008 server as a management server for the various Core Server installations around the enterprise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotty McLeod recently gave a presentation to the Windows Server UK User Group on Windows Server 2008 Server Core. I mentioned Server Core in a previous post but here&#8217;s some more on the subject, based on Scotty&#8217;s presentation (it&#8217;s also worth checking out Micheal Pietroforte&#8217;s post on Server Core essentials). Contrary to popular belief, Server &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/windows-server-2008-server-core.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows Server 2008 Server Core<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-windows-server-2008"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windows Server 2008 Server Core - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/windows-server-2008-server-core.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windows Server 2008 Server Core - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scotty McLeod recently gave a presentation to the Windows Server UK User Group on Windows Server 2008 Server Core. 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