{"id":746,"date":"2014-05-03T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2014-06-01T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T10:32:46","slug":"more-on-core-gui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"More on Core->Gui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With some help from my colleague, Reg, I did manage to reach a point where I could install server core and then run <code>install-windowsfeature<\/code> to completion without an error. <\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, after rebooting when the command had finished, all I got was a DVD light flashing and a black screen (for 24 hours) so something still doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>The reason the original command failed, was we think due to patching the server image and not the media, as explained by CGomez in <a href=\"http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/topic\/365701-impossible-to-install-gui-on-server-core-2012-caveats\">http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/topic\/365701-impossible-to-install-gui-on-server-core-2012-caveats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a poor show from Microsoft that such a basic set of steps leads to such a complicated error.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. 01-Jun-14<br \/>\nI forgot to mention that the commands in the blog above did work. What didn&#8217;t work was the subsequent reboot and that was due to VMWare tools which don&#8217;t work on the combination of Workstation 8 and Server 2012R2.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_750\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CoretoGui.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CoretoGui-300x84.png\" alt=\"Adding to Server Core\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CoretoGui-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CoretoGui-500x141.png 500w, https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CoretoGui.png 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adding to Server Core<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With some help from my colleague, Reg, I did manage to reach a point where I could install server core and then run install-windowsfeature to completion without an error. HOWEVER, after rebooting when the command had finished, all I got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}