Used Windows Server 2008 Core Installation? You can install Standard, Enterprise or DataCenter without the GUI. That means knowing the command line alternatives which is a great challenge. Throw in the 3rd party stuff and it’s often impossible, hence I use the Full Installation (with Windows) instead.
Used Hyper-V Server 2008? That’s a variation of Windows Server 2008 Standard Core Installation that only allows you to run Hyper-V. It has no GUI but it has a character based configuration tool that runs kind of like a green screen menu interface. That was called HVCONFIG.
Windows Server 2008 R2 includes SCONFIG after many requests from the public – including me. This is the same style of character based GUI and will allow you to open the gates on your Core Install server:
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Credit: Windows Virtualization Blog.