Businesses that want to increase the stability and security of their information systems and extend the useful life of older hardware should take a good, hard look at Server Core, an installation ...

One of the slew of announcements at Microsoft's TechEd 2007 yesterday was the addition of another Server Core role for Windows Server 2008—that of Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7). For those ...

Focusing on virtualization and headless server technologies, Server Core is easier to manage and provides more flexibility for system administrators. Russell Smith is a technology consultant and ...

Don Jones shares the challenges that one of his clients faced moving to server core and how they worked around them. I'm a big fan of the Microsoft Server Core installation option and firmly believe ...

IT admins are justifiably excited by the idea of a "server core" in Windows Server 2008, formerly code-named Longhorn Server. The technology, which strips out extraneous functionality to allow just ...

Configure the iSCSI initiator in Windows Server Core or Hyper-V Server Your email has been sent Provisioning storage to the Windows Server Core can be a challenge. Rick Vanover describes how to ...

Look closely the next time you install Windows Server 2012. You'll notice a subtle wording change in Windows Setup where you're asked to select the OS you want to ...

Microsoft released ServerCore with Windows Server 2008 as a GUI-less version of the Windows Server operating system, and while many of us fiddled with ServerCore, it really didn’t take off for ...

Server Core is a “minimalist” installation of Server 2008 – it doesn’t even come with a graphical user interface! The idea is that you only install the services you need. The benefits of a Server Core ...

Microsoft has fixed several bugs that cause install, upgrade, and Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issues on Windows Server 2025 devices with a high core count. The symptoms include Windows Server 2025 ...