Jason Yoder, MCT

Server Core is an excellent platform for running Hyper-V. Because of its minimal installed code, you will have greatly reduced maintenance and reduced attack footprint on the host system. Since Server Core is a minimal installation of Windows Server 2008, you will be working with a text based environment similar to Unix. Also with the minimal code, more of the servers resources can be dedicated to the VMs, and less to the parent OS.   Log into your Server Core with an account that has local administrative rights.   Let’s get a listing of what roles and features have been installed on this server   Type Dism /online /get-features /Format:table and press Enter .   We will see a nicely formatted table of what is on installed, and what is not.     If you scroll down the list you will see Microsoft-Hyper-V is disabled. Let’s enable it.   Type Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Hyper-V and press Enter . This co...

This task is now much easier than it was in Server Core 2008 R1. First, log into server core. Type Sconfig and press Enter . Press 1 for Domain/Workgroup and press Enter Press D for Domain and then press Enter . Type the name of the domain that you want to join. Type the name of a user account in that domain that has the rights to add clients to the domain. A new Window will open up to ask you for the users password and then to confirm it. Once joined to the domain, type 11 to Restart Server . You should now see this server core as part of your domain.