[dayglored]

Here's one for us Windows System Admin types...

[dayglored]

All about the Nano Server ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to tacticalogic for the heads up!!

[UCANSEE2]

[theBuckwheat]

Its windoze. It will never take over my data center. As to lacking a GUI, “headless” Linux has been available for a long time.

[zeugma]

Windows Nano Server is headless and sessionless. As mentioned, there is no GUI. But there’s also no local login, so there’s no point in attaching a keyboard or mouse or running this in any kind of Remote Desktop-oriented session. Consider it like a Linux box in the cloud that you don’t have SSH access to – you use it remotely, you manage it remotely, and all it does is run services and applications like an appliance would. It’s incredibly compact and has a very small surface area – just as much as is needed to fulfill its role as a specialty purpose server operating system.

OK, so how do you administer it? How do you authenticate for this administration? Are connections to it encrypted? How do you get files to it to install software and services?