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Now, in Part 3, let's talk about how we can use our somewhat configured Server Core Installation. I will Control Alt Delete. You'll notice it sees Core Administrator and I can switch user now because in the previous video we joined the Nashville domain and now I can log on to Nashville. OK? Notice I'll log into Nashville Administrator and I'll put the password in and we're now logging in. So we know we've joined the domain. Right? So what can we do with that bit of information now? Well, let's go back to one of our servers in the Nashville domain and let's set some remote tools. OK? So what I'm gong to do now, the magic of virtual computing, it's going to look a little funky on your screen, I'm actually going to drag in one of my Windows Server 2008 servers on the Network, OK, and I will Control Alt Delete here and we'll go in as Administrator, OK? We'll log in here and what we're going to do now is use an MMC to connect to our Server Core computer. Alright? And so now this is going to look very inviting to see that graphical user interface again, OK? Keep in mind, the power that we get with Server Core, very small footprint, very small attack surface, all the functionality, none of the fluff and all that sort of thing, OK? So it's asking me a question and I'll just put some junk in here for now, don't do that in real life, to get past that because I didn't properly shut down last time and I will close the initial configuration window. The Server Manager should pop up here in just a second. There it is. And I will kill that. What I want to do now is set up an MMC. So here's my blank MMC. It's reminding me about my terminal server's licensing. I'll make that full screen and I will lose this action window by clicking right here on this toggle switch. What I want to do now is do a File, Add-Remove Snap-In. OK? And what we want to do is, for example, computer management, if I add that, it asks me what's the other computer that you want to hit? I'll type the computer and then I'll type SCore. Or I can browse to see it. OK? And I will click find and let's see if it'll show it to us. There it is, our other computer. OK? And I will hit OK and that should populate it for me now. OK, just any minute. Any second now would be nice. Oh, that's not responding. I'll have to be patient here and give it a second. And so there's the score computer, the S Core I should say and I will click Finish. It adds it and I say OK. And I will now pull this over so that we can see it. I will expand this. It will connect to the Score computer. It'll take it just a second. Find the Score computer and connect to it. And so what I will do at this point, barring any bizarre problems here since I'm doing a video and people are watching, is I will simply connect to that computer and then manage it. OK? So I'm having just a bit of a problem. Hold on just a second. Not a problem. I'm trained, right? I can take care of this. OK, this is a great example of the things that can go wrong and it has just occurred to me what the problem is. I'm going to go back to the Server Core Machine and what's going to happen is if I try to ping back to my server, I can hit it, but if I try to ping into Server Core, I can't and that tells me that my firewall has turned back on because I restarted the machine, OK? So I want to set op mode on the firewall to mode equal disable. Now, this is a great example of the kind of things you can wrestle with, so now let's go back out, let's grab my server, here we are again. Let's connect the computer, OK? We'll call it SCore and we'll say OK and notice I popped right in, OK? So it was the firewall on the Server Core computer that did that. Now, notice what's happened here. I can now jump into the Server Core, right? And I can see into the Windows logs. There's the Application Log on my Server Core machine and so now all I want to do is continue to add more and more remote connection tools right here. Just continue to go File, Add-Remove Snap-In and continue to add more things and start to configure that Server Core. OK? You know, we can start to add, we'll, that's going to add it on my machine. But anyway, there's a lot of things I can do here and I can start to get these graphical tools pointed to my Server Core Installation and start to work with it. Ok? There are command prompts out there in the Microsoft Site for adding roles to that machine, then adding snap-ins to manipulate those roles. OK? So there's the basics in these three or four videos here about how to set up Server Core and how to start getting it ready to configure, then how to configure it. I hope that helped a lot. Again, go out to Microsoft's web site, download some information on Server Core and don't forget all the blogs and Google searches out there will help you tremendously.