You??™ll also discover all of the command line switches you can use to shut down your server.
Chapter 3 is also where you??™ll learn some of the essentials of the WMIC command??”an important
utility for configuring and maintaining your server.
Chapter 3
Performing Essential
Maintenance Tasks
Most administrators quickly realize that they don??™t really understand the ramifications of working
without a Graphical User Interface (GUI) in Server Core. Yes, many configuration tasks proceed without
any trouble. However, once you get past the basic configuration, you need to start installing
applications and performing other tasks that are quite easy when working with a GUI, but may
become quite hard when working with a character-mode interface. This chapter helps reduce the
pain of configuration tasks.
In addition to application installation and other configuration tasks, you must also consider how
best to secure and maintain your server. Chapter 1 has already shown you some of the security configuration
by telling you how to create a new user and assign that user to a particular group. However,
you??™ll find that you need to perform many other tasks to secure your server.
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