However, many
administrators neglect to learn netsh well, since everything they can do in netsh
can be done more easily with any of the Windows GUIs. Server Core makes it necessary
for Windows administrators to learn how to use this tool rather than make it
an afterthought. Although many core network services that a Server Core instance
can provide can be managed remotely using an MMC snap-in, many key tasks
cannot be accomplished without netsh, especially with regard to configuring network
interfaces, such as setting a static IP address or listing DNS Servers to use.
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administrator password of password123. This could be easily accomplished remotely
by running the following command from an existing Windows Server 2008 installation:
Slmgr.vbs Utopia Administrator password123 -ato
Rename the Server and Add It to Your Domain
Since the Windows Server 2008 installation process doesn??™t ask for the computer name
before proceeding with the install, the server is given a computer-generated name. This
unintuitive random name is practically useless in most environments, so you??™ll need
to rename the server to something more meaningful before joining it to the domain.
Microsoft??™s documentation tells you to use the netdom command to rename a computer.
The problem with this command, however, is that you can??™t rename a computer until it
has joined the domain.
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