Reading Time: 2 minutes In this article, I am going to try and explain how to get a website running on Windows Nano Server. I am going to use PowerShell for the management of IIS because at the moment you cannot use the IIS Management tools for Nano Server. If you need to install Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I thought it was about time to go back and play with Windows Nano Servers! So in this post, I am going to try and explain how to get a create an SMB File Share running on Windows Nano Server. [themify_box style=”note”] Note: My Nano server is based in azure Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes You have your Nano server up and running connected to the Domain and able to remote manage it. But now you actually want to start to use it for something. How do you install packages? I will hopefully show you how easy it is to install packages on Nano Server, Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this article, I am going to show you how to Join your Nano Server to the domain. We can only join your Nano Server to the domain once it has an IP address and DNS set up. You can view how to do that here. Now we have our Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have seen a lot of sysadmins using Remote desktop to manage their servers, I was even one of them, but with Nano Server you can’t just RDP into it. In this guide I will show you three methods of managing Nano Server. One will be via Powershell, second will Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes This guide is to show you how to configure networking on a nano server. This can be done in a few ways. In this guide I will show you how to Set a static IP address via the Recovery Console and also via PowerShell Direct. Set IP address via Recovery Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is Nano Server? Nano Server is a new installation option in Windows Server 2016, which cannot be installed the normal way. Nano Server is an operating system optimised for private clouds and data centres and can only be administered remotely. It is similar to Windows Server Core, but is Read more…