Skip to content

PowerShell on Server Core

PowerShell running on Server Core

PowerShell running directly on Windows Server Core - no need to wait for Windows Server 2008 R2…  If you look closely you can see how I got it working.

4 Comments

  1. Paul wrote:

    Softgrid?

    Posted on 09-Apr-08 at 11:53 pm | Permalink
  2. Dave wrote:

    Nice!, I’m guessing you re-packaged .net & Powershell and used Softgrid?

    Nice going :)

    Posted on 11-Apr-08 at 6:48 am | Permalink
  3. Yeah, I used SoftGrid 4.5 beta. I sequenced the .NET Framework 2.0 and PowerShell 1.0 on Windows XP and ran that using the SoftGrid client on Server Core.

    Posted on 11-Apr-08 at 9:56 am | Permalink
  4. Joe Shonk wrote:

    All that work (and licensing/hardware costs) just to run PowerShell. Wow, what is Microsoft thinking? Personally, I’m still liking VBscript.

    Joe

    Posted on 18-Apr-08 at 12:36 am | Permalink

2 Trackbacks/Pingbacks

  1. [...] Aaron used SoftGrid to repackage the .NET Framework and PowerShell for server core - and it worked! He says there are a few errors, but as a proof of concept it’s a great idea [...]

  2. [...] PowerShell on Server Core is now possible and several people have done it, even if it isn't [...]

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *
*
*

Comments for this post will be closed on 7 August 2008.