Windows 2008 Server Core has some truly embarrassing Limitations. In this Article I will try to cover few of them.
For example I read that a core installation can be used to run a web server with IIS 7 but then:
“As Internet Explorer being a prerequisite for. NET Framework, you can not use Powershell or run any managed Application (note: nothing. NET), although IIS is supported it can not be used to publish web applications based on ASP.NET, but Only html based sites. ”
How? Only sites based on HTML? Both true, I say nothing web server.
And nothing Powershell? But for the peppa, I have only the line of command and I also take away the Powershell?
It is not over, continuing with quotes:
You can not upgrade from an earlier version of Windows Server.
Right! Better format. : o (
“You can not upgrade mode Server Core mode from full graphical interface, but you will need a new installation.”
Great! OK! Choose well immediately otherwise: zak! formats the distribution if you want Explorer.
I understand, vai installation standards as before.
I need to say I find very good the idea that they offer a minimal installation, although undoubtedly it need to be improved (who said the service pack?). Maybe for the moment will be mainly used in embedded devices.
The point of this article. Before deciding to go all the way with your infrastructure on Windows 2008 Server Core, Please test rigidly as it has a lot more limitation than Windows 2008 with Graphical interface.
I hope this would help and warn many new comers to Windows 2008.
Quotes from where? You may be correct, but reading this article just made me think that I need to do some research where I can get some actual references that can be verified. From this article, I have to assume that these are all interpretations by the author rather than verified facts (although they are stated as if they were facts). 🙁
Hi Rob,
I am sorry for not mentioning that into the article, but these quotes were from a Microsoft Windows 2008 Seminar. The speaker answered clearly with the quotes above when was hit about the above questions by one of the attendees. Furthermore, the statements seems to be logically correct and hold true when ever I tried it in our Lab. I am positive the second one will never be fixed as no way they can upgrade a GUI OS to a non GUI one in Windows as they are totally mixed together in earlier Windows versions, but they have to fix the first one sometime if they desire people to use the core installation to run a webserver, which can be a great use for the server core.
Thanks for your comment, and feel free to post later your finding.
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