16 hours ago by stuart

Before jumping into this post the following, Implementing Windows Server Core 2008 R2 Domain Controllers and Manage Active Directory Replication provide information for monitoring replication across a domain which is necessary when renaming a Domain Controller. Renaming a Domain Controller is not as ...

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1 day ago by DG

Server Core installations are versatile, secure and highly-optimized installations of Windows Server. Dubbed ‘Windows without Windows’ by some, these installation in Windows Server 2008 R2 are capable of providing more (infrastructural) services than ever! The table below shows individual roles and ...

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7 days ago by Sander Berkouwer

Server Core installations are versatile, secure and highly-optimized installations of Windows Server. Dubbed ‘Windows without Windows’ by some, these installation in Windows Server 2008 R2 are capable of providing more (infrastructural) services than ever! Just like Full installations of Windows Ser ...

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7 days ago by Steve

Once you have joined your Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to the domain you are ready to install roles and features. Normally you would do this through server manager but in core there is no GUI so there is no server manager. Roles and Features Available to Install To get a list of roles and features ...

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7 days ago by Sander Berkouwer

Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 and installations of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 offer Windows PowerShell. A lot has been written on the geekiness of PowerShell, how it wasn’t included in Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 and how you could enable it anyway. The quest ...

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11 days ago by Roger Johnson

Hello all.....here it is 2010 already and I am just getting back in the saddle after being away on a long break. I lost my father suddenly at the end of last year, so I had to step away from the blogging for a bit. But, I am back and boy do I have a lot of great things to share with you folks over t ...

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11 days ago by Jon Oltsik

For the last few years, I used Windows Vista on my laptop PC and felt like it was pretty good. I guess I was part of a small minority – most organizations eschewed Vista and stuck with tried-and-true XP. Now that Windows 7 is out, it appears like the tides have turned. According to ESG Research, 44% ...

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13 days ago by Jeffery Hicks

I’ve recently started using the Server Core option for my test servers, especially for things like domain controllers. I can get by with smaller disk and memory requirements. Once you get the server configured, there’s very little you have to do that actually requires logging on to the server. Which ...

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14 days ago by Steve

One of the big challenges with installing Windows Server Core is that after the installation you are presented with this: Even if you are comfortable on the windows command line (and let’s be honest here) most of us (pretty close to all of us) would be hard pressed to even set an IP address. With Po ...

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19 days ago by Michael

Situation: I have a 32bit file server running Windows Server 2003. I have a new 2008 R2 (x64) file server running on Hyper-V. Did I mention that the R2 server is on Clustered hosts? This is all simple. Just drop the LUNs from the file server, give them to the cluster and assign them as pass through ...

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