[geeks] The best things in the world

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Micah R Ledbetter <vlack-lists at vlack.com>
>Date: 2008/09/12 Fri AM 03:39:00 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] The best things in the world

>On Sep 11, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> He thinks headless servers, command-line interfaces, and reduced- 
>> surface servers are a response to Linux innovations and a buckling  
>> by MS to the awesome-ness of Linux, in all it's many splendored  
>> flavors...
>
>Is Server 2008 capable of real headless anyway? I thought you still  
>needed a graphical display, it just only supported like cmd.exe and  
>notepad.exe, but I would love to be wrong.

Define headless.

Can you install the OS without a head - no, not that I am aware of.

Can you run a server truely with no local console, yes - you can access it via RDP, you can use management GUI to controll what happens on the machine, etc. There is a small boot-strapping issue, in that you need to get into the machien and set the IP address manually, but one it is set, it is remotely manageable, as if youhad a local console. Of course, all remote management options in Windows Server remain.

You can work sround the install issue by using "Ghost" or other utility to get the initial OS install on the system, then configure it remotely.

Lionel