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Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2

Learn about the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 in the areas of virtualization, management, the Web application platform, scalability and reliability, and interoperability with Windows 7. Download Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2, written by industry experts Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker along with the Windows Server team at [...]

Win 2008 : Core Configurator 2.0 -Free

It is completely open source so it can be amended and change to fit your requirements, this version has been a year in the making and has been written in powershell with a reference to Winforms so that a GUI format is displayed.

The primary focus of this project is to try and get feedback [...]

Win 2008 : How can I rename Server 2008 Server Core

How can I rename Windows Server 2008 Server Core

Once again, with no GUI your Windows Server 2008 Server Core can easily be renamed using Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC), and here is how,

wmic computersystem where name=”%computername%” rename name=”new-name”

As result, you will get ‘Method execution successful’ message. However if your machine is domain-joined, [...]

Win 2008 - How to setup IP config of Server 2008 Server Core

How to setup IP configuration of Windows Server 2008 Server Core

In order to add your Server Core to a domain you must assign an IP and DNS server to the current IP Configuration and you do that using NETSH tool, otherwise using the answer file your setup will fail complaining about its inability to [...]

Win2008 – How to enable RDP for Windows Server 2008 Server Core

How to enable RDP for Windows Server 2008 Server Core

Even though the Server Core option of Windows Server 2008 does not have shell, you can still RDP (Terminal Services) into it by using RDC from a Windows Client. To do that, you have to first enable the RDP on Server Core by using [...]