Server Core changes in Windows Server 2008 R2

re: Server Core changes in Windows Server 2008 R2

Sechaba — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:39:54 GMT

I have Installed Server Core 2008 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 and still unable to install .net Framework 4. Please advise what is it that im doing wrong?

Thanx

re: Server Core changes in Windows Server 2008 R2

Sechaba — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:38:05 GMT

Where can i download Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Server Core?

re: Server Core changes in Windows Server 2008 R2

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re: Server Core changes in Windows Server 2008 R2

kfarmer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:19:54 GMT

Andrew:

While it is true that Server Core does not (arguably should not) support GUI, there are many useful types in WPF namespaces, including those that deal with media, which would be useful for applications that need to process media without invoking any GUI.

For example, generating images that have text rendered on them, perhaps with visual brushes.

I appreciate the desire to keep these from bloating the Core, but I'd rather be the one to decide which subsets of the framework are available. Perhaps (as the case with 32-bit code) we could optionally include subsets of the framework rather than kvetch that we don't have any access at all to them? Of course, we'd want to be able to add these post-install...

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re: Server Core changes in Windows Server 2008 R2

Andrew Mason - MSFT — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:38:02 GMT

I’ll try and cover all the feedback/comments above, let me know if I missed anything.

Thanks for the feedback on WoW64, we are hoping to get some data from the beta as to how often it is installed. Just to be clear, it doesn’t prevent 32bit code from running on Server Core, you just need to install the optional feature first. If an organization required 32bit support in all their Server Core installations, they could use an unattend file to always install it.

I’m going to get into the subsets of .NET in more details in later posts, including lists of classes not available, but the reason for the subsets is dependencies. There are classes in .NET 2.0 that require Internet Explorer. If you have an app that requires those, it will need to run on full Server. Adding IE to Server Core in order to support all of .Net will increase the Server Core foot print substantially (with all the required dependencies) and lose much of its benefit. For .NET 3.0 it is WPF that is not included. Server Core isn’t designed to run GUI apps, so those should run on full Server.