Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing
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@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
Server 2016 have a install method called Core.
Actually it doesn't. The install options are
- standard
- standard with desktop experience
- datacenter
- datacenter with desktop experience
The ones without desktop experience are what used to be called Core installs. I think MS does have the term Core still sprinkled around inside the OS and documentation though.. just adding more to the confusion.
They changed again? I have not installed 2016 yet.
Yep. And this time I actually agree. The whole idea, I think, being that MS is moving toward a non GUI on the servers being the standard way of installing/using Windows Server going forward.
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@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
Server 2016 have a install method called Core.
Actually it doesn't. The install options are
- standard
- standard with desktop experience
- datacenter
- datacenter with desktop experience
The ones without desktop experience are what used to be called Core installs. I think MS does have the term Core still sprinkled around inside the OS and documentation though.. just adding more to the confusion.
They changed again? I have not installed 2016 yet.
Yep. And this time I actually agree. The whole idea, I think, being that MS is moving toward a non GUI on the servers being the standard way of installing/using Windows Server going forward.
Not a bad scheme, and I do agree that the move to no desktop by default is good.
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@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
Server 2016 have a install method called Core.
Actually it doesn't. The install options are
- standard
- standard with desktop experience
- datacenter
- datacenter with desktop experience
The ones without desktop experience are what used to be called Core installs. I think MS does have the term Core still sprinkled around inside the OS and documentation though.. just adding more to the confusion.
They changed again? I have not installed 2016 yet.
Yep. And this time I actually agree. The whole idea, I think, being that MS is moving toward a non GUI on the servers being the standard way of installing/using Windows Server going forward.
Not a bad scheme, and I do agree that the move to no desktop by default is good.
yeah when I installed it last week I was a bit concerned thinking the media I downloaded was Core only (the name of the media includes core - even MORE confusing)... I didn't really read the whole list when I installed - I saw standard, assumed it was the same as in 2012 and just installed, but when it came up, it came up with a command prompt only.
After digging around for a while, I found the info about the With desktop experience junk, reinstalled and life was good.
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@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
@JaredBusch said in Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing:
Server 2016 have a install method called Core.
Actually it doesn't. The install options are
- standard
- standard with desktop experience
- datacenter
- datacenter with desktop experience
The ones without desktop experience are what used to be called Core installs. I think MS does have the term Core still sprinkled around inside the OS and documentation though.. just adding more to the confusion.
They changed again? I have not installed 2016 yet.
Yep. And this time I actually agree. The whole idea, I think, being that MS is moving toward a non GUI on the servers being the standard way of installing/using Windows Server going forward.
They made that very public as their goal when PowerShell was released long ago.
