At the recent Minasi Forum 2007 conference, Mark Minasi briefly spoke about Windows Server 2008 (formerly Longhorn) Core.\u00a0 Core?\u00a0 What the hell is Core?<\/p>\n
Core<\/a> is a stripped down version of Windows Server that only installs those components that are necessary for roles that you define.\u00a0 The most noticeable feature is that there is no GUI.\u00a0 Anyone who has fired up Windows PE will know that all you get is a command prompt.\u00a0 It’s the same with Core.\u00a0 It’s going to be quite attractive for anyone who needs maximum performance, a minimal attack surface or minimised complexity.\u00a0 Your administration has to either be done via command line<\/a> (eek!) or by using remote consoles.\u00a0 Note that there’s no support for DCOM so local stuff like Powershell is not an option.<\/p>\n Of note, today Microsoft announced that Server Core will now support a role for IIS 7.\u00a0 This means you can run stripped down IIS7 servers.\u00a0 This will be quite attractive to organisations with a large Microsoft based web presence.<\/p>\n Update:<\/em><\/p>\n I got a message from Dmitry Sotnikov<\/a> last night.\u00a0 He informed me that although we cannot install Powershell on a Server Core installation, we can still manage those servers remotely<\/a> using the new scripting language.\u00a0 This makes sense … MS are pushing Powershell and it’s management capabilities are excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the recent Minasi Forum 2007 conference, Mark Minasi briefly spoke about Windows Server 2008 (formerly Longhorn) Core.\u00a0 Core?\u00a0 What the hell is Core? Core is a stripped down version of Windows Server that only installs those components that are necessary for roles that you define.\u00a0 The most noticeable feature is that there is no … Continue reading “Server 2007 Core”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-8927","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\/8927","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=8927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}