A couple of quick tips this time around. If you want to determine if you are running on Server Core from a script, you can do this via WMI. The command line way is: wmic path win32_operatingsystem get OperatingSystemSKU /value The value can then...

To follow up my last post, this one will go into more details on option 3 in that post. As mentioned you can simply enable the Remote Administration firewall rules to allow pretty much any MMC to connect (a few require additional configuration as...

Just like on a full server installation, the firewall is on by default in a Server Core installation and most inbound traffic is blocked at the end of setup. There are then three scenarios for remote management via MMC: Server Roles – when a...