Introduction to Windows 2008 SERVER CORE

The Server Core installation option is a new option that you can use for installing Windows Server 2008. A Server Core installation provides a minimal environment for running specific server roles, which reduces the maintenance and management requirements and the attack surface for those server roles.

 

To accomplish this, the Server Core installation option installs only the subset of the binary files that are required by the supported server roles. For example, the Explorer shell is not installed as part of a Server Core installation. Instead, the default user interface for a server running a Server Core installation is the command prompt.

Changes in TCP/IP stack for Windows Server 2008 “netsh interface set interface” commands

Many of the TCP/IP registry values supported in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are not supported by TCP/IP in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. You can configure additional TCP/IP settings with command-line parameters for the following Netsh commands at a Windows command prompt with administrator-level permissions:

• netsh interface ipv4 set interface
• netsh interface ipv4 set global
• netsh interface ipv6 set interface
• netsh interface ipv6 set global