Using Microsoft’s PowerShell cmdlet: New-TimeSpan you can see how long an application has been running Command: New-TimeSpan -Start (get-process calc).StartTime You will want to sub the word “calc” out for whatever application you are using. You can type “get-process” to see a list of all the ProcessNames running on the system. For more examples, check out: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Ee176916.aspx
Converting to Server 2012 Core from GUI is very easy. Microsoft said that 90% of their Windows Updates are GUI patches. Which is why they came out with Server 2008 Core. The only problem was that if administrators got stuck and could not find out how to accomplish a task via Command Prompt or PowerShell
Windows Server 2012 is the first Microsoft operating system that can change from CLI (Core) to GUI mode. The only way to get a GUI in Server 2008 was to re-install, which is why a lot of system administrators were put off by Server Core. Server 2012 can bounce between the two and it really
