Exploring the Nano Server console

After getting your first Nano Server up-and-running, a logical next question to ask is What now?. With a traditional server you would set things such as the hostname and IP address, and probably join it to your domain. More than likely, once your Nano Server is established you will be heading down into the final recipes of this chapter to figure out the best ways to remotely administer this new machine, but until you have networking and domain membership established, you aren't going to be able to do much with the remote management tools. So is there any kind of console access on a Nano Server? Yes, but it is very limited. The tool that is presented in the console is called the Nano Server Recovery Console, and the capabilities provided by this tool are the focus of our current recipe.

Getting ready

We are going to be working from the console of the new Nano Server we just finished building. This server is plugged into our corporate network, which is...