Windows Server Core is the epitome of Microsoft's shift toward GUI-free. But since you can't beat a good dashboard, here's how to access the GUI remotely. Taking a cue from Linux, these days Microsoft ...

Windows Server 2016, not likely to arrive until the second half of next year, is going to shake up the way Microsoft licenses its server operating system, moving away from per socket licensing to per ...

For production server environments, it’s recommended that you run the Server Core version of Windows Server 2012 which lacks a GUI. The purpose of that recommendation is that it reduces the resources ...

How many of you guys use server core? Thoughts on it? Worth the hassle of CLI-only? The benefits seem to have merit but I've not Shell experience. I do want to learn though. We ran into a few issues ...

Brien shows how to perform Windows Server core deployments in AWS without having to build your own custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI). If you have ever deployed a Windows instance in Amazon EC2, then ...

Microsoft this week warned Windows Server 2012 users against uninstalling older .NET Framework versions. For organizations upgrading their servers, removing the old .NET Framework might seem like the ...

With a new preview release of Windows 8 now available, it's no surprise that the new look of the desktop is getting a lot of attention. But the Windows desktop is only part of the story: it's part of ...

Microsoft has started to renew its reputation as an innovator. For instance, when you look at the latest beta release of Windows Server 2016, you might mistake it for one of the thin and light Linux ...