The GUI elements of the operating system
chew memory like candy and drink hard drive space like soda. When you eliminate the graphic
applications that insist on running in the background and all of the other eye candy of the operating
system, you find that system resources go considerably further. Of course, you don??™t get
the benefits of the GUI either. For example, it??™s much easier to track performance using a GUI
than it is to view the same information using a scrolling display of numbers. In some respects,
the reduced resource requirements come with a price of potentially harder management in some
situations (such as tuning server performance).
You may wonder about Internet Information Server (IIS) support in Server Core. As of this writing,
it??™s possible to run a subset of standard IIS applications on Server Core. However, the Server
Core version of IIS will have severe restrictions due to lack of .NET Framework functionality. In
fact, IIS won??™t have the following features.
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ASP.NET
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The IIS Management Console version 7 (since it requires a graphical interface)
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The IIS Management Service
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The IIS Legacy Snap-In or IIS Management Console version 6, for managing legacy Web
sites
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IIS FTP Management
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The Windows Activation Service
In short, you??™ll be able to use IIS to run static and some scripted applications, but that??™s about it.
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