Enabling Remote Desktop on Windows Server 2008 Core

On Windows Server 2008 Core you do not have a graphical interface, so how do you enable Remote Desktop?

1. Login to the server console.

2. To enable remote administration from Windows 2008 Server systems run:

> Cscript %windir%\system32\scregedit.wsf /ar 0

3. To enable remote administration from Windows 2003/Windows XP and earlier operating systems run:

> Cscript %windir%\system32\scregedit.wsf /ar 0
> Cscript %windir%\system32\scregedit.wsf /cs 0

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How to configure IP address, Hostname, and DNS in Windows 2008 Server Core

With Windows 2008 Server Core you don’t have a nice graphical interface to configure everything, therefor you need to configure via the command line. This article will cover how to configure an IP address, Hostname, and DNS servers in Windows 2008 Server Core.

1. Login to the server.

2. Configure your hostname:

> netdom renamecomputer %computername% /NewName:<newservername>

Where you replace <newservername> with the servername you wish to use.

3. Configure IP address:

> netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”2″ source=static address=192.168.0.5 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1

4. Setup DNS:

> netsh interface ipv4 add dnssserver name=”2″ address=192.168.0.1

NOTE: We have referenced in these commands an interface name of “2″. If you want to find out what name/number your interface is, do the following:

> netsh interface ipv4 show interface

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