After chatting with my friend and fellow Microsoft MVP Allen White about Windows Server Core on a recent SQLCruise.com excursion, I realized that this is a technology I should be evangelizing more. I ...

Windows Server Core is the epitome of Microsoft's shift toward GUI-free. But since you can't beat a good dashboard, here's how to access the GUI remotely. Taking a cue from Linux, these days Microsoft ...

The co-opetition among the world’s top cloud computing providers is becoming more pronounced. Google Inc. kicked it up another notch today by adding support for two of Microsoft Corp.’s most important ...

Microsoft’s Windows Server Backup program, which we’ve been discussing lately, wouldn’t be all that great if it didn’t also support the Server Core versions of the server operating system – the ones ...

Two Windows Server features that have been widely ignored by the enterprise community deserve a second look — especially because Microsoft has enhanced them in Windows Server 2012: Server Core and ...

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that was causing security applications to flag a core Windows component, the company ...