Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how to troubleshoot a Nano Server installation using the Nano recovery console, Emergency Management Services (EMS), kernel debugging, and Setup and Boot Event Collection (SBEC), which is a new feature introduced in Windows Server 2016.

SBEC allows you to remotely view debug errors, events from your deployment process, the bootloader, OS, and services. It will help you to troubleshoot issues without interactive login or physical access and it works on both physical and virtual machines. It requires a little additional infrastructure and can be set up using PowerShell; you can access data in real time and it can be correlated with other diagnostic data to identify problems faster.

In the last section of this chapter, we covered how to retrieve and read Nano Server Windows event logs and display them in a nicely formatted HTML report.

Continue now to Chapter 10, Running Other Workloads on the Nano Server, to learn more about what other roles and features...