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Core Configurator - download it whist you can…

A few months ago, I wrote a post on customising Windows Server 2008 Server Core and Michael Armstrong tipped me off about a cool utility, written by former MVP Guy Teverovsky, called Core Configurator . I say former MVP, because Guy has given up that award to join Microsoft in Israel - and I’m not surprised...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 08-19-2008
PowerShell running on server core (revisited)

PowerShell evangelist (and Microsoft deployment guru) David Saxon dropped me a note this morning to let me know that Quest Software's Dmitry Sotnikov has got PowerShell running on Server Core . Nice work Dmitry. It's not a supported configuration (as Jeffrey Snover notes in his post on the PowerShell...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 05-16-2008
PowerShell running on server core (using application virtualisation)

Aaron Parker saw my presentation on Windows Server 2008 server core earlier this week and it got him thinking... I said that Microsoft don't see server core as an application platform but there's no real reason why not as long as the applications you want to run don't have dependencies on...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 04-11-2008
Today's Community Day

I just wanted to say "thank you" to everyone who came along to one of our sessions at today's Community Day at the Microsoft Campus in Reading. I hope you enjoyed it - and please leave feedback on the UK User Groups website (the feedback form should be live next week). For anyone who missed...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 04-09-2008
Customising Windows Server 2008 server core

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...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 03-27-2008
Surfing with server core

The whole point of the server core installation mode for Windows Server 2008 is a reduced attack surface - no Windows Explorer, no Internet Explorer, no .NET Framework. That's all well and good but sometimes it's useful to download a file over HTTP to a server core machine. No problem - just...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 03-27-2008
A few commands to get started with Windows Server Core

Scotty wrote: Mark mailed me last night to ask about my crib sheet for Core Server but as it was Friday evening was taking a rest from the digital world. A hour and a half later he mailed me back to say he had found all he needed. Now this was from the mail Mark's first real go in anger at installing...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 08-14-2007
Apache HTTP server on Windows Server 2008 Server Core

Microsoft's James O'Neill wrote about how: "Some bright spark tried running Apache on [Windows Server 2008 Server] Core and having no special Windows dependencies it works." I couldn't find any references to this elsewhere on the 'net so I had to give it a go - it's actually...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 07-16-2007

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