Chapter 14. Server Core
Oddly one of the most talked about new features in Windows Server 2008 isn't new at all, and in a sense isn't Windows either. Windows Server 2008 Server Core is a stripped-down version that runs server roles: file server, domain controller, DNS, and DHCP services among others. Server Core runs in an environment that is less than 20 percent the size of a standard installation. You can use it to run Microsoft Cluster Server, Network Load Balancing, Windows Backup, Subsystem for Unix-based Applications (SUA), Removable Storage Management, SNMP, and BitLocker drive encryption, for example. You should expect to see more capabilities for Server Core in the future.
Server Core doesn't run the graphical components of Windows, ...
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