All sorts of wonderfulness in a very small package for cloud use. Those of us who groaned when having to run Windows Server in a cloud VM have something to rejoice about!
The Register - Microsoft goes cloud KERR-AZY, chops Windows Server to bits
Let me guess - they threw out all the obscure features no one ever uses?
Very nice indeed.
Get- is the new right-click.
I don’t suppose you could install your own SSHd, and have it automatically run PowerShell upon logging in? Or default to the standard Command Processor? (or even go for broke, and install one of the many UNIX shells for Windows—the Bourne shell comes to mind)
The SSHd installer would have to be self-hosted (no MSI, obviously)
Speaking as a simple country bumpkin who has limited access to the internet (Wild Blue or 4G cell), I know that connectivity is not guaranteed at any time or for any duration. The only thing I would consider reliable is that which is local.
Remote storage and processing are nice, I just have trouble trusting them.
MS continues to innovate. Having taken Server 2012 MCP courses and exams in the very recent past, I can attest to Microsoft’s attention to PowerShell in all things. I work almost exclusively in PS now for administrative work and very rarely do I log into a server GUI.
Server Core is an excellent revision of the Server OS and requires very little maintenance. I’m glad to see they’re pushing on with it.