{"id":9158,"date":"2008-08-13T09:55:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2008-08-13T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"reducing-the-server-core-disk-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9158","title":{"rendered":"Reducing the Server Core Disk Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting <a title=\"entry \" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/server_core\/archive\/2008\/04\/16\/reducing-the-server-core-disk-footprint.aspx\">entry <\/a>on the TechNet blogs about how to further reduce the amount of disk required for running Server Core.<\/p>\n<p>Server Core is tiny compared to a full installation of Windows Server 2008, sacrificing the GUI and .NET to reduce RAM &amp; disk requirements as well as reducing the attack surface.\u00a0 It supports a number of roles whose install files are on the hard disk.\u00a0 You can uninstall those packages using the instructions on the <a title=\"linked \" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/server_core\/archive\/2008\/04\/16\/reducing-the-server-core-disk-footprint.aspx\">linked <\/a>blog entry.<\/p>\n<p>This is a one-way deal.\u00a0 You cannot re-install those packages.\u00a0 To get them back you have to re-install the OS.\u00a0 You will no longer be able to install the functionality of the packages once you remove them.<\/p>\n<p>Why would you consider this?\u00a0 If you&#8217;re installing Core, you&#8217;ve probably got a very set idea of what the server will do, e.g. it will be nothing but a file server, or a DC, or maybe even a Hyper-V host.\u00a0 In fact, a Hyper-V host is a perfect example.\u00a0 It should be nothing but a Hyper-V host.\u00a0 Uninstalling the other packages will guarantee that and you&#8217;ll have minimised how much disk the OS needs, thus freeing up space for VM&#8217;s &#8230; although it&#8217;s not going to all that much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting entry on the TechNet blogs about how to further reduce the amount of disk required for running Server Core. Server Core is tiny compared to a full installation of Windows Server 2008, sacrificing the GUI and .NET to reduce RAM &amp; disk requirements as well as reducing the attack surface.\u00a0 It supports &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reducing the Server Core Disk Footprint&#8221;<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-w2008"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","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=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}