Here’s a couple of quick extra helpers for administering Windows Server 2008 Server Core.

  1. Guy Teverovsky (Microsoft MVP) has created the CoreConfigurator which gives a small GUI to many of the initial setup pieces of Server Core, so you don’t have to follow my detailed (cryptic) instructions.
  2. Create Shadow Copies on your Server Core file server with
    vssadmin add shadowstorage /for=C: /on=D: /maxsize=900MB
    vssadmin create shadow
    at 7:00am /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su "vssadmin create shadow /for=c:"

    MaxSize can be bytes (/maxsize=10240), KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, or EB (/MaxSize=1EB), assuming your disk is that big.

I haven’t used CoreConfigurator myself, but I did create my shadow copies again finally on our main server today. There’s a backup that’s amazingly great to have.

Edit on July 8, 2008:  I forgot the”/for=c:” in my paste back to here -I was configuring another Windows Server 2008 Server Core file server and couldn’t figure out why the scheduled task wasn’t creating shadow copies properly.  Sorry to anyone who used this note and had issues.

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