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Working with Windows 2016 Nano Server

Working with Windows 2016 Nano Server

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Working with Windows 2016 Nano Server

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- [Voiceover] Hello everyone, and welcome back to another edition of Building Your Technology Skills. My name is Martin Guidry, and this week we'll be talking about Nano Server and Windows Server 2016. Nano Server is a new smaller, slimmer version of Windows 2016, has many of the same features of Windows 2016, just runs with significantly less resources. It is a headless operating system meaning it has no graphical user interface and therefore must be managed remotely. You have some options on how to manage it, PowerShell being one of the more popular. And in future releases, there will also be some options to use a graphical interface remotely but there is no graphical interface built into Nano. Some of the benefits Microsoft is projecting: a much smaller size, significantly less critical bulletins, and significantly less reboots. So by taking out some of the features that are often involved in critical bulletins, things like Windows Media Player, there's quite a number of critical…

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