Nano Server is kind of like Server Core but more stripped down as various features Server Core has are absent in the Nano Server and there's no way you can switch it back to Server Core or Server with GUI. From what I saw was that after booting up Nano Server, you got presented with the login screen along with the menus that looked easy to explore and configure. That would probably bring you back to MS-DOS days when it comes to full screen text interface and it should be quite comparable to Linux server OSes where you start off with nothing but full screen command line interface. I don't know if Nano Server is less difficult to use but needless to say, you may need to use Putty or Powershell to remotely access the Nano Servers and you can't even use the Remote Desktop thing at all. Funny imagination is, there should be the full screen text interface mode in Windows 10 client OS as grounded mode for kids as punishment but that may sound pointless to happen when there's already such a thing as domain policy or parental control. I guess that domain policy is more advanced and powerful than parental control but that will require all home computers to be part of the home domain powered by some home server running Windows Server. Another problem against the imagination is how do you adjust the corporate-like policies on kids' mobile devices as parental controls at an advanced level? With standard parental controls enabled on every device at home, I'm sure that the kids may freak out on that.
Next was the containers and this new technology will be available in Technical Preview 3 of Windows Server 10 and some third-party app called Docker allows the support of Windows Server containers. A container is none other than a mini-computer within a physical host or virtual machine. The computer part is at the base with the applications and various services being above that. It should be a handy feature for Nano Servers because server reboots can make a serious impact to the business environment. The workaround against server reboot is the live migration taking place between clusters.
Speaking of clusters, there are already server and storage clusters but the upcoming feature is the Hyper-V cluster which is basically the virtual machine cluster. Of course, people already compared the container stuff with VMWare Thinapp and App-V but I felt like the container is starting to become a different or superseding feature.
Other features mentioned included the server virtualization and automation via Powershell. It was a tedious stuff when it comes to Powershell probably due to so much scripting going on during the demo in the Jump Start and System Center Virtual Machine Manager was mentioned as well in addition to Hyper-V when it comes to server virtualization. However, there was one tool I was highly curious from the demo I saw. It wasn't Hyper-V or Remote Desktop as the top interface was black, simple and different but the host was able to switch between virtual machines from some drop-down menu at the top.
Lastly, I was trying to get the presentations at the end of the Jump Start but the network running the unknown site the presentations were held in was behaving like a technical idiot on me so screw that technical stupidity. I may as well get those presentations when the Jump Start is available on demand.
