I thought that even if the server was setup as a Core you could use the GUI
interface on a Windows 7 type of machine using the RSAT tools.  Is this not
the case?

Jon

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Your point is well made, Ben, but many environments that could use Server
> Core don't have the requisite scripting skills to manage it either.
>
> And companies are not trying to train people these days.   And the economy
> hasn't been helpful of late.
> But I think that the lack of hotpatching played a role as well.
>
>  -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker>
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>  On Jun 3, 2010 6:10 PM, "Ben Scott" <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Free, Bob <r...@pge.com> wrote:
> > What is interesting is if you talk...
>
>  Well, in the case of Server Core, I would guess that might be
> because of the limited usefulness of the product as delivered.  As per
> that TechNet article you quoted, Microsoft doesn't support using
> Server Core for very much.  Microsoft's party line is you're not
> supposed to use it for third-party software at all.  The number of
> servers without *any* third-party software on them is practically
> zero.  Why on Earth did Microsoft think that would see significant
> adoption?
>
>  This is a classic case of a company hearing a request -- "we don't
> want to have to run a GUI on our servers" -- and delivering something
> which technically met the request, but totally missed the point.
>
>  (And you still can't run it on a serial console.)
>
> -- Ben
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