I thought that it was especially interesting that Server Core was the default installation type in Windows Server 2012 and that even if you do choose to perform a GUI-based installation, you can ...

Server Core isn't there yet, but now is the time to learn this tool that will be the key managing enterprise Windows in the future I was recently working with an ISV that's creating a suite of ...

Server Core was designed to provide essential services and also lower exposure to hacking. The next server version, Windows Server 2012, allowed switching between the GUI interface and command ...

Nano Server will forgo the whole GUI/non-GUI approach of Server Core in favor of a full remote management approach. Don’t think RDP — think PowerShell or, more appropriately, Core PowerShell ...

In a section entitled, "Yes, we (still) love GUI tools," Microsoft admitted that "IT admins have repeatedly told us that PowerShell is necessary but not sufficient, and that Windows Server ease-of-use ...

The host system was Windows Vista Ultimate. Server Core gives you a bare-bones version of Server 2008 ... Server Core doesn’t give you the familiar GUI operating system shell, with Start ...

Closely related was the development of Windows Server Core, which dropped the GUI in favour of a command line-driven experience (while still letting apps have their own GUIs).

Windows Server Core is the epitome of this GUI-less mentality, where it's not possible to add a GUI to the server itself. Microsoft gives us other ways to manage our Windows servers using languages ...

Server Core merely takes off the GUI but leaves a lot of the underlying Win32 API surface area and structure so that when you put the GUI back on via a checkbox – at least in Windows Server 2012 ...

Microsoft is changing the positioning and feature set of Nano Server with the coming fall feature release of Windows Server 2016. ... Networking, Storage, .Net, Core CLR) -- and no GUI. ...