A few months back, I wrote a post with a few commands to get started with server core on Windows Server 2008. Since then, I've had some fun tweaking server core installations (including some cheekiness installing third party web servers and browsers). Sander Berkouwer wrote a series of blog posts last summer that look at changing the look and feel of a server core installation:
- Changing regional and language options as well as time and date options
- Changing display settings such as screen resolution and color depth
- Changing keyboard and mouse settings/cursors
- Changing the splash screen, logon screen and tweaking the command prompt window
Server core may be intended for core infrastructure servers in lights-out data centres but some customisation can be useful.