Features:
Product Activation
Configuration of display resolution
Clock and time zone configuration
Remote Desktop configuration
Management of local user
Firewall configuration
WinRM configuration
IP configuration
Computer name and domain/workgroup membership
Installation of Server Core features/roles
After installing CoreConfigurator (supplied as MSI package), navigate to the folder where it has been installed and execute CoreConfigurator.exe
Tip: you do not actually need to install the application. The 4 files in the program's folder can be copied and used on other Server Core computers without installing the application)
The main screen:
Activation screen
You can find the activation status of the Operating system. Install the product key in case you did not do that during the Operating System setup and then You can activate the server.
Display Settings
It gives you the option to configure display resolution. The user experience quite a lot if the server virtualized with the feature "Show window content while dragging while working on a console.
Time Zone
It will bring the standard timedate.cpl control panel applet:
Remote Desktop
This RDP button will let you enable/disable Remote Administration connections. In addition you can configure here the "Allow connections from previous versions of Windows":
Account Management
It gives the option to create local user account, mangage the account password add/remove local accounts to local group easily.
Firewall
The firewall section is used to help you to configure the basic rules which helps to at least connect and administer the server from a remote machine.
WinRM
Here you can enable/disable the WinRM. Enabling WinRM is equivalent to running "winrm -quickconfig". Disabling the WinRM will delete the WinRM listener:
Networking
The Networking section is very similar to IP settings dialog you have in GUI-capable Windows versions:
Computer Name
In this section you can rename the computer and join it to a domain/workgroup:
Features
Here you can install/uninstall various Server Core features.
Warning: Figuring out what features are already installed turned out to be not an easy task. The new WMI Win32_ServerFeature class has some limitations that result in feature list being refreshed only after reboot. This means that if you install a specific feature and query Win32_ServerFeature, you will not see the new feature untill you reboot. The limitations made me go a slightly different route: I am parsing the output of oclist.exe. The downside is that some IIS features after being installed do not show up as installed in the output of oclist.exe. If you want to make sure the specific IIS feature has been installed, look at the event logs. If you know a better way to query in real-time for the list of the installed features, please contact me.
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