installation mode for Windows Server core

When we install Windows Server 2008, you will find that you will actually have a new option called the Server Core installation mode, and first I would like to remind you that the Server core itself is not a separate version, There's not a Standard Edition, an enterprise version, and we have the Server Core version, not really, it's actually just an installation mode, an installation mode for the entire Windows Server 2008, one of the biggest features of this server Core There is no graphical interface after the load is finished. Login interface is the same as normal, once you log in, you will find that the desktop is all there is no, there is no Start menu, there is no taskbar, nothing, the middle will give us a command line of a window, only this.

So what I'm looking at is a blue background, and it opens up a black command-line window, and that's probably it. So most of the graphical interface is basically not, you can say that I think at first glance is quite scary, that the computer did not start up, in fact, is a special installation mode. This installation mode is actually the same as its name, the Server Core, it only installs the server, or the operating system some of the more critical, more core services and components, others in the server environment does not look very useful things, such as wmp,ie, built-in outlook such components, These of course can not say completely useless, but in the server environment, generally speaking, we rarely use, basically will not use, so these components we will not install. In this case, you will find that this is a very clean, very small installation mode, even after installing Server Core in general, your hard disk space may only need about 1G, or even smaller than 1G, it is a very clean mode.

Windows Server core available and unavailable services

First of all, let's take a look at the benefits of it, it's a clean pattern, no extra stuff. This time, we'll find that it works very well, at the same time you are in the management, you will find that because it is a small component, so you are doing this system update, in the patch, its patch number than normal mode of this Windows Server patch is less, about 60% less, will be very little. And because it's not open, there are not so many services installed, there are not so many features, so that it is exposed to the outside of the attack surface will be relatively small, we can completely according to their needs, on this very clean server to start the role you need. So I think it's some of the benefits of it, very clean mode. Of course now, not all of the features can be run in this mode, I would like to install an office on this to use, this is not the case.

Here's a list of some of the features that you can use in this mode of Server core, or some of the roles that can be run, such as Windows server virtualization, and some services in the Active Directory, like directory services, or this family Directory Access service. Some of the corresponding network services, such as Dhcd,dns, file Print services, and streaming media features, and of course, IIS these features can be run under Server Core mode. That is, when your server wants to be able to run these roles, you can consider using s to install it because it is more stable, more efficient and more secure. Other models, some other roles and features, now seem to be unable to run in Server Core mode, and of course I think we might be able to support more of these roles, more services and more functionality, but from now on, these are the kinds.