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Mastering Windows Server 2022 - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Windows Server 2022 - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634507
Pages 720 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
Profile icon Jordan Krause

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2022 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2022 3. Active Directory 4. DNS and DHCP 5. Group Policy 6. Certificates 7. Networking with Windows Server 2022 8. Remote Access 9. Hardening and Security 10. Server Core 11. PowerShell 12. Redundancy in Windows Server 2022 13. Containers 14. Hyper-V 15. Remote Desktop Services 16. Troubleshooting 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index
Appendix: Answers to the End-of-Chapter Questions

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This topic brings us full circle to our discussion about Server Core and Nano Server. If you have worked with Windows Server for many years, you have probably wondered why Microsoft introduced a new installation option called Nano Server, only to remove it during the next LTSC release. This change happened right around the same time that Microsoft started diving into using Windows Servers as container host servers, and this information directly relates to the question, “What happened to Nano Server?”

Nano Server is now only useful for containers. In fact, you cannot install a Nano Server instance outside of a container. This is its purpose. You do not have to use Nano inside your containers, but it’s one of the options.

Containers are sort of like VMs but at a different level. With VMs you share hardware among multiple full instances of the Windows operating system. Each VM maintains a completely separated kernel from one another...

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