Managing Nano and Core with Server Manager
So our console access for configuring a Server Core is pretty limited, and making changes at the console to a Nano Server only gives us four little options. Either we're missing something here, or Microsoft intended for us to be managing these servers differently. Queue 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 like 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 the datacenter, without having to make any adjustments to the way that you are handling that administration. We can even use the RSAT tools to put a copy of Server Manager right on our Windows 8 or Windows 10 computers! Clearly the days of RDPing...