Summary

I have to be honest with you—writing this chapter has been exactly the kick in the pants that I needed to start thinking about shrinking my own servers. I am in the same boat as many of you: I know what Server Core is and have played around with it, but have never taken the steps to really use it in the production environment that I support. Now that tools such as Sconfig and the new Windows Admin Center are available to us, I have officially run out of excuses as to why I shouldn't be deploying new roles onto Server Core boxes. While it never hurts to learn something new, using Server Core no longer comes with the requirement that you must be fluent in PowerShell. The early days of Server Core came with a requirement to be really good with PowerShell, as this was the only reliable way to configure and interface with your tiny servers, but these new tools allow...