{"id":1164,"date":"2009-05-26T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T20:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2009-05-14T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:22:53","slug":"activating-windows-server-2008-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/activating-windows-server-2008-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Activating Windows Server 2008 Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Server Core is a minimal server installation option for computers running on the Windows Server\u00a02008\u00a0R2 operating system. Server Core provides a low-maintenance server environment with limited functionality. Command-line tools and other management tools (both local and remote) can be used to manage a machine running Server Core. For a list of command-line tools, see <a id=\"ctl00_mainContentContainer_ctl01\" onclick=\"Track('ctl00_mainContentContainer_ctl00|ctl00_mainContentContainer_ctl01',this);\" href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=20331\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0033cc;\">Command-line reference A-Z<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To activate your Windows Server 2008, you can login to the server console and type the following shell command and press Enter in the Windows shell:<\/p>\n<p><strong>cscript C:\\windows\\system32\\slmgr.vbs -ato<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Server Core is a minimal server installation option for computers running on the Windows Server\u00a02008\u00a0R2 operating system. Server Core provides a low-maintenance server environment with limited functionality. Command-line tools and other management tools (both local and remote) can be used to manage a machine running Server Core. For a list of command-line tools, see Command-line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-longhorn-server"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}