Core Installation Option?

[mstanton]

New to Windows Server 2008, and new to a job where 2 are running. I want to install Symantec Backup Exec on one of them. The manual says "you cannot install a Backup Exec media server on a computer that runs the Windows Server Core installation option of Windows Server 2008." How would I know if the "core installation option" is running/resent?

Thanks in advance for any/all replies.

-M

 

[itsp1965]

If you TS over to a server that is running only with a command prompt and no GUI screen then then odds are you are accessing a box running server core.
But just to make sure refer to the following;

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sand...w-to-tell-whether-it-s-a-server-core-box.aspx

OR

http://blogs.technet.com/b/server_core/archive/2008/01/29/new-server-core-tips.aspx