Most
of these applets rely on the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), a host application. You??™ll find
that nothing in the Control Panel appears with Server Core. At first, this omission may make it seem
impossible to manage Windows. However, just about everything you need to mange Windows
does appear as part of the command prompt, as you??™ll discover as the book progresses. For example,
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if you want to add or remove users, you can use the NET USER utility to do it, or create a VBScript
script to perform the task. You??™ll find a discussion of these techniques in the ???Creating, Deleting,
and Managing Users??? section of Chapter 20.
However, the command line isn??™t quite complete. For example, you can??™t change some characteristics
of the GUI display using the command line feature. Of course, given that the GUI isn??™t a big
part of the Server Core feature, this may not even be a consideration for you. To change the GUI display,
should you need to do so, you??™ll have to rely on registry hacks. You??™ll find a number of these
hardware modifications provided in the ???Modifying the Hardware Setup??? section of Chapter 4.
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