Every now and then you’ll hear a Microsoft person, usually from Redmond, talking about Windows Core.\u00a0 Are they talking about Server Core?\u00a0 The answer is no.<\/p>\n
We’ll keep this one short and simple.\u00a0 Windows Core is Microsoft’s set of people that develop the central components of Windows.\u00a0 This includes the kernel, security, storage, and hyper-v groups.\u00a0 Mark Russinovich happens to work closely with them.<\/p>\n
Server Core is the installation option that gives you a stripped down installation of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.\u00a0 It is Windows without the windows, giving you a command prompt to manage the server (or manage it using remote GUI tools).\u00a0 The purpose of it is to reduce the footprint and to reduce the attack surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every now and then you’ll hear a Microsoft person, usually from Redmond, talking about Windows Core.\u00a0 Are they talking about Server Core?\u00a0 The answer is no. We’ll keep this one short and simple.\u00a0 Windows Core is Microsoft’s set of people that develop the central components of Windows.\u00a0 This includes the kernel, security, storage, and hyper-v … Continue reading “What is Windows Core?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}