Administrators can connect to the Server Core system from another Windows system for administrative purposes. The user experience is identical—the user logging in from the remote system will only get a command prompt in their Remote Desktop session. Note Remote Desktop Services Administration is disabled by default, just as it is on a full installation of Windows Server 2008. We provide instructions on how to enable Remote Desktop Services Administration later in Chapter 4. WS-Management ​ ​Web Services for Management (WS-Management) is a relatively newly defined standard in the IT world.

You’re presented with a number of options for how Windows Update will update the system. These options provide more control over what updates are applied, at the cost of manual approval of updates. Note Group Policy settings can set the default action and block users from making changes. Regardless of the choice, you need to make one before you can proceed. 3. To do a manual check for updates, click the Check For Updates button. Doing so contacts either the Microsoft Update server or the local Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) server for a listing of the updates that apply to the system.

As such, any of the storage devices listed in the Windows Server Catalog will work with Hyper-V. These include SCSI, SAS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI—if there’s a driver for it, Hyper-V can use it. Of course, you’ll want to take some considerations into account when planning the ideal Hyper-V host. ” Here are some of the areas where extra attention is necessary: Multiple spindles and I/O paths ​ ​Most disk-intensive workloads, such as database servers, need multiple spindles to achieve high performance.