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Enabling the Minimal Server Interface

Enabling the Minimal Server Interface - Windows Server Tutorial

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Enabling the Minimal Server Interface

Now, we've talked about the minimal server interface. Let's go ahead and take a look at what that looks like. One way to get to the minimal server interface is to go up to the manage option under the server manager. Click that. Then click the remove roles and features. Go ahead and click server selection. Since we only have one server involved, we'll take the default one. And then go down and click features. Once the feature screen is up, we need to go down to the user interface and infrastructure option. Once we're down here, you'll notice that it has a gray box. That gray box indicates there are additional features under this heading. Does it reveal those features? Go ahead and click the little arrow key. As you can see, we have a graphable manager tool infrastructure and a server graphical shell. To reveal the minimal server interface, we want to go ahead and turn off the server graphical shell. Once we check this off, we need to click next. This will require a restart of the…

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