Server Core May Impact Infrastructure

A new Server Core installation of the next version of Windows Server, code-named Longhorn, will install a minimal set of components for network infrastructure functions, such as file service. The Server Core mode will reduce server maintenance and improve security for these server roles, but the lack of a Web server role and the requirement to manage the server by remote management consoles or a command line and VBScript may negate some advantages.

Sever Core Roles

Servers running a Server Core installation can play one or more server roles:

• Distributed Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server, which automatically configures networking parameters
• Domain Name Service (DNS) server, which translates Internet domain names to Internet addresses
• File server
• Print server
• Active Directory domain services, or Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (formerly called application mode, or ADAM), which hosts an instance of the Windows computer and user database
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