Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

If you are just starting to dabble with Windows Server 2012 and specifically with Hyper-V 3.0, you may find it a bit confusing since there are three different ways of ...

We are going to be evaluating RC0 of Hyper-V from Microsoft. I personally want to install Windows Server 2008 (Server Core), but my coworker wants to install it with the GUI (Full Installation). What ...

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 ...

this is a bit of a long shot, but i'm hoping someone might have a solution for this problem. i've installed a Hyper-V virtual machine running Server 2019 Core Evaluation, on the assumption that i ...

In the 15-plus years I've been writing about technology, I don't think I've ever written a full-blown software review about a freeware product. I've always felt that the whole purpose of a product ...

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 ...

In addition to the new features, the installation method has been modified so that, by default, the Server Core versions of the OS are installed. Introduced in Windows Server 2008, Core refers to a ...

Note that Server Core is not a separate product but an install option for Longhorn. One benefit of using Server Core instead of the full-blown Windows Server 2008 is that the surface area for attack ...