Product DescriptionMicrosoft's new GUI-less Server Core is a command line version of Windows Server 2008 that offers better security, reduced size, and faster access. Inside this comprehensive guide, you'll find everything you need to quickly master this sleek new version. Packed with instructions and practical examples, this book teaches you how to operate in a windowless environment, including using all the commands, creating BAT files, working with scripts, using registry hacks, managing remote systems, and more. Includes best practices, 52 indispensable command line tricks, and an alphabetical list of all the commands.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Could have been great, but still good
The book works overall. If you have no idea how to do things in server core, it gives you most everything you need. I did not like the organization of the book. It was chopped up in sections like security, disk management, etc. I found myself flipping back and forth quite often. I would have preferred a book that made it more of a how-to everything. There were times where I wanted to know how to do something from start to finish that meant using sections from chapters 4, 7 and 11 for example.
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Rating: - No GUI and that's just great!
For those of us who've performed more than 50 percent of our administration tasks from the command line (in Windows) for that past 15+ years, it's nice to see that Microsoft is still committed to this method of administration. It's also good to see a book like this that teaches a new generation of technology professionals how to get things done most efficiently - at the command prompt.
Windows Server 2008 intrduces the "core" concept, which is an implementation of Windows Server without ... Read More
Rating: - Great reference!
This book seems to be the first 2008 Core Server book out. Sometimes, a fancy title might be picked, but it doesn't really apply to the book contents... That is not the case here. This book is a handy reference guide for administering the GUI-less version of Server 2008.
Being faced with pretty much only a DOS command-line can seem pretty intimidating, but this book helps you figure out how to do those typical administration tasks that would be required when dealing with a networked server. ... Read More
- Could have been great, but still good
- No GUI and that's just great!
