Managing Server Core with Server Manager
As we've seen, console access for configuring Server Core is pretty limited. Either we're missing something here, or Microsoft intended for us to be managing these servers differently. Cue the drumroll for remote management. Centralized administration of Windows Server operating systems is something that Microsoft really started pushing hard with the release of Server 2012, and it is increasingly important in Windows Server 2016. Tools such as Server Manager are now becoming agnostic to the local machine that they are running on. You can use Server Manager on one server to manage a different kind of server halfway across a data center, without having to make any adjustments to the way that you are handling that administration.
Several times in this book already, we've seen the option for using Server Manager right from our Windows 10 computer with RSAT installed. Clearly, the days of RDPing into every server should be diminishing...
