

We next need to download the Windows Admin Center installer.


This establishes an interactive session on the Server Core server. If the local computer and the server are in the same domain, passing a credential wouldn't be necessary. To do that, we use the Enter-PSSession command and optionally provide a credential. We first need to open up a PowerShell console and establish a PowerShell Remoting session to the server. That said, how do we get our hands on Windows Admin Center and begin shunning GUIs with Windows Server Core? I'm glad you asked! Windows Admin Center also leverages WMI/CIM and other technologies to remotely - not locally - manage Windows Server. The PowerShell command Get-CimInstance can open up a wealth of information if you know how to use it correctly. Command-line junkies have known for a long time that much of what's available via the Windows Server GUI is available remotely by querying a server's WMI/CIM repository.
