Post-Installation Tasks
Installing Server Core for Windows Server 2008 is the easy part. Without a real user interface
to assist you in configuring the server, you will need to get used to working with
the command prompt if you don??™t already work with it. Your first order of business after
Figure 2-3. After logging into Server Core, you??™ll see only a single command prompt.
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installing Server Core is to run through the initial configuration tasks, except this time
without the help of a handy screen to walk you through it:
1. Set the Administrator password.
2. Configure your network interfaces.
3. Activate the server.
4. Rename the server and join it to a domain (if applicable).
5. Configure Automatic Updates.
6. Enable remote administration (unless you like sitting in front of the server
every time you need to work on it).
7. Configure the Windows Firewall.
Setting the Administrator Password
You were already prompted to change the password the first time you logged on, however,
you can change the administrator password locally in two ways. The easiest way is
to press ctrl-alt-del and then select Change a Password. You can accomplish the same
thing straight from the command prompt:
Net user Administrator P@ssword
Simply replace P@ssword with whatever password you want to use. The main difference
between these two methods is that the graphical method requires you to enter
the old password and then the new password twice before changing the password; in the
command-line method, the password is changed immediately.
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