Administer Windows Server 2008 Server Core from the Command Prompt
This tip offers a list of tools that will help you become an expert in administering Server Core from the command prompt.
To become an expert in administering Server Core from the command prompt, you need the following:
-Familiarity with using the command-line tools included in Windows Server 2008
-Knowledge of which tools can be used to administer a particular role or feature, as well as to perform a particular type of task
Here’s a quick guide to some of the more useful command-line tools you can use for performing specific types of administrative tasks in Server Core. The list is not meant to be complete and the task areas in it are not ordered in any particular way. Also, while most of the tools listed in this table are command-line tools, a few of them are scripts or GUI tools.
Task: View system information
-Msinfo32
-Set
-Systeminfo
Task: View user information
-Whoami
Task: Manage users and groups
-Net accounts
-Net group
-Net localgroup
-Net user
Task: View or change computer name
-Hostname
-Netdom renamecomputer
Task: Join or leave a domain
-Netdom join
Task: Log off or shut down
-Logoff
-Shutdown
Task: Configure networking
-Ipconfig
-Netsh interface
-Netsh routing
-Route
Task: Configure Windows Firewall
-Netsh advfirewall
Task: Configure Internet Protocol security (IPsec)
-Netsh ipsec
-Scregedit.wsf
Task: Activate Windows
-Slmgr.vbs
Task: Manage services
-Net continue
-Net pause
-Net start
-Net stop
-Sc
-Tasklist
Task: Manage processes
-Taskkill
-Tasklist
-Taskmgr
Task: Manage tasks
-At
-Schtasks
Task: Collect and analyze performance data
-Logman
-Relog
-Typeperf
Task: View events and manage event logs
-Wevtutil
Task: Manage disks and storage
-Compact
-Defrag
-Diskpart
-Diskraid
-Mountvol
Task: Manage Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
-Vssadmin
-Cacl
Task: Manage file systems and file permissions
-Convert
-Fsutil
-Icacls
-Takeown
Task: Manage files
-Openfiles
-Sigverif
Task: Manage shares and share permissions
-Net share
Task: Manage the registry
-Reg
-Regedit
Task: Install and manage drivers
-Driverquery
-Pnputil
-Sc
Task: Install and manage updates
-Pkgmgr
-Scregedit.wsf
-Systeminfo
-Wuauclt
-Wusa
Task: Install roles and features
-Oclist
-Ocsetup
Task: Install applications
-Msiexec
Task: Manage Group Policy
-Gpresult
-Gpupdate
-Secedit
Task: Manage certificates
-Certreq
-Certutil
Task: Manage Terminal Services (Remote Desktop for Administration)
-Change
-Logoff
-Msg
-Mstsc
-Qappsrv
-Qprocess
-Query
-Qwinsta
-Reset session
-Rwinsta
-Shadow
-Tscon
-Tsdiscon
-Tskill
From the Microsoft Press book Windows Server 2008 Server Core Administrator’s Pocket Consultant by Mitch Tulloch.
credit: technet.microsoft.com