From the course: Windows Server 2016: Installation and Configuration
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With or without the Desktop Experience - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2016: Installation and Configuration
With or without the Desktop Experience
- [Narrator] After installing this server for the last segment, I took the liberty of installing a second Windows 2016 server on an identical environment, this time without the Desktop Experience, and booting them up took virtually the same amount of time. In fact, so did logging in and shutting down. Microsoft is pretty good at building efficient desktops, the real difference comes into play after boot. As I log into this server, the interface you may have become accustomed to isn't there. You'll remember this slide from a previous video segment. The Desktop Environment does use about 3.5 gigabytes of extra space for the GUI and all of the administrative tools. That difference is going to grow with every role that you install and all of the associated management tools, which may or may not bother you, depending on the price of storage space, but the other performance differences are worth mentioning. Based on my trials in the lab environment, the server running the Desktop Experience…
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