For production server environments, it’s recommended that you run the Server Core version of Windows Server 2012 which lacks a GUI. The purpose of that recommendation is that it reduces the resources ...

Windows Server Core is the epitome of Microsoft's shift toward GUI-free. But since you can't beat a good dashboard, here's how to access the GUI remotely. Taking a cue from Linux, these days Microsoft ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm testing out Server Core and whether it would be a good fit for our org. A problem I'm running into is that we have an internal SCCM/WSUS setup, but it doesn't offer updates for Windows 2012 (or ...

In this post, we’ll show you how to enable and configure Hyper-V Remote Management for headless Hyper-V hosts (Windows Server Core or Microsoft Hyper-V Server) from a Windows workstation, all in a non ...

Users can obtain Windows Server 2016 directly from Microsoft, authorized resellers, and Microsoft partners. According to ZDNet contributing writer Mary Jo Foley, the shift to per-core pricing from per ...

When you think of containers, it's easy to think of Linux first. Most containers and container workflows are built on Linux, and for obvious reasons. Linux starts faster, takes up less space on disk ...

Docker Windows Server containers let you run programs on Windows in a lightweight and isolated environment. They work like small packages that include everything a program needs to run, such as the ...