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Plan, manage, diagnose

Boot with PXE Standalone mode MMC improvements WDS infrastructure to customize Diagnosability enhancements Get into WinPE Apply full OS image Inject drivers First boot and OOBE

Plan, manage, diagnose

Boot with PXE

Get into WinPE Apply full OS image WDS Server is configured and ready Server PXE boots WDS Server responds with boot program Inject drivers First boot and OOBE

Plan, manage, diagnose Boot with PXE

Get into WinPE

Apply full OS image Inject drivers TFTP transfer of boot and OS loader TFTP shared UDP port allocation TFTP shared client buffer First boot and OOBE

Plan, manage, diagnose Boot with PXE Get into WinPE

Apply full OS image

Inject drivers WDS is running in WinPE Apply of image begins VHDX apply First boot and OOBE

Server with a GUI Minimal Server Interface Server Core • •

Classic “Full Server”

Full Metro-style GUI shell Install Desktop Experience to run Metro-style apps • • •

NEW Full Server without Server Graphical Shell

No Explorer, Internet Explorer or associated files MMC, Server Manager, and a subset of Control Panel applets are still installed Provides many of the benefits of Server Core for those applications or users that haven’t yet made the transition •

Server Core NEW

Can move between Server Core and Full Server by simply installing or uninstalling components

POWERSHELL

Uninstall-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra -Restart

Single reboot required

all services to restart

POWERSHELL

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,Server-Gui-Shell -Restart

NEW

Can install multiple features with one command by separating with commas

Server with a GUI

POWERSHELL

Uninstall-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Shell -Restart

POWERSHELL

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Shell -Restart

POWERSHELL

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra -Restart

calls to HTML Help API will return NULL!

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ServerCore = 1 ServerGuiMgmt = 1 ServerGuiShell = 1

Server Core

Set Not Set Not Set

Minimal Server Interface

Set Set Not Set

Server Graphical Shell

Set Set Set Win32_ServerFeature

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/cc280268

Command Prompt PowerShell/.NET

Server Manager MMC Control Panel CPL Applets Explorer Shell Taskbar System Tray Internet Explorer Help Themes Start screen (Metro) Metro-style apps Media Player

Server Core

a a x x x x x x x x x x x x x

Minimal Server Interface

x x x x x x x x a a a a x

Some

x

Server with a GUI

a a a a a a a a a a a x a x x

Desktop Experience

a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj127275

POWERSHELL

Uninstall-WindowsFeature -Remove

CMD

mkdir c:\mountdir

CMD

Dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile::sources\install.wim

CMD

dism /mount-wim /WimFile::\sources\install.wim

/Index:<#_from_step_2> /MountDir:c:\mountdir /readonly

POWERSHELL with mounted WIM

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,Server-Gui-Shell –Restart –Source c:\mountdir\windows\winsxs

CMD

Dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile::sources\install.wim

POWERSHELL

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,Server-Gui-Shell –Restart –Source wim::\sources\install.wim:4

POWERSHELL

Install-WindowsFeature -Source

POWERSHELL with mounted WIM

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,Server-Gui-Shell –Restart –Source c:\mountdir\windows\winsxs

POWERSHELL

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,Server-Gui-Shell –Restart –Source wim:d:\sources\install.wim:4

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/hh975396

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