Building and Deploying Nano Servers
Microsoft has introduced an installation option of Windows Server 2016 that provides an operating system designed and optimized for Cloud operations. Microsoft’s Nano Server is intended to support and run …
How to change Windows Update settings using SCONFIG
Validate your current WU settings using SCONFIG To determine what updates your machine has already installed, follow these steps: Open a command prompt with Admin permissions. Type sconfig and press Enter. NOTE: There …
Deploy IIS On Windows Nano Server 2016 Container
Deploying IIS on A Windows Container can be done In two ways, First way deploy windows Nano Server Container and then Install IIS using DISM, Second way and more simple …
Disable The Firewall On A Windows Nano Server Using PowerShell
In this article, I’ll show you how to disable the Windows Firewall on A Windows Nano Server 2016. Below, you will see two methods to do it one using Netsh …
How To Change Windows Nano Server 2016 DNS Server IP Address
In this article, I’ll show you how to modify \ Change the existing DNS Server IP address on a Windows Nano Server 2016. To complete this operation, You will need …
Join Windows Server 2016 Nano Server To A Domain
To join the Nano Server to my Active Directory domain I’ll use offline Domain Join utility (Djoin.exe). To complete this you will need to run the Djoin command from a …
How To Connect To A Windows Nano Server Using PowerShell
In this article, I’ll show you how I connect to my Windows Server 2016 using PowerShell Remoting. To get started, I Open a Windows PowerShell console. Note:If your Nano Server …
Install Windows Nano Server on VMware ESXi
In my lab, I have VMware ESXi hosts and I just want to deploy the Nano Server as a Virtual Machine so that I can play around with it, which …
How to deploy Windows Nano Server on vSphere
Windows Nano Server is a super lightweight version of Windows Server that was “built for the Cloud”. When I first heard of it I immediately became curious, because it resembles …
6 Benefits Nano Server Will Bring to Hyper-V
In April 2015, Microsoft announced a new feature available in Windows Server 2016 called Nano Server. It is similar to Windows Server Core mode but remarkably smaller. Apparently there are …