Chapter 12: Server Core

Anyone working with Windows servers should be familiar with Server Core, or at least the name. As we mentioned back in Chapter 3, Networking, Server Core is an alternative installation method for Windows Server 2019. It enables you to build a Windows server with significantly lower CPU, memory, and hard drive requirements. We've seen a fair bit of remote management already in this book and Server Core is how this has been possible. It is upon this shift in management mindset that many of our recipes will be focused today.

I feel that this chapter is important to include because I have the opportunity to work in new customer environments and get a feel for the way that they establish their networks and servers all the time. Do you know what I find? That everyone is running their Windows servers in the full GUI-based Desktop Experience mode. Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with that, but the fact that Server Core has been in existence since Windows...