Next, I tried Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 and, as I expected, the installation failed.
Meanwhile, Opera had no noticeable issues installing and loading a few test web pages. Safari installed (except the Bonjour component) but has a dependency on the Internet Options control panel applet (which is not present in server core) so I couldn’t define any proxy server settings. It worked, so I decided to try Apple Safari (v3.1) and Opera (v9.26). That’s probably as far as most people need to go – adding a simple command line utility to a command-line Windows installation – but I wanted to take things a step further (purely out of curiosity) and I installed Mozilla Firefox (v2.0.0.13). Wget -proxy-user= domainname\ username -proxy-passwd= password uri/ It needed a couple of configuration items to get past my corporate proxy server but worked flawlessly: No problem – just download a version of GNU wget that has been compiled for Windows and use that to download the file. That’s all well and good but sometimes it’s useful to download a file over HTTP to a server core machine. The whole point of the server core installation mode for Windows Server 2008 is a reduced attack surface – no Windows Explorer, no Internet Explorer, no. Please be warned that the information here may be out of date. I don't routinely update old blog posts as they are only intended to represent a view at a particular point in time.
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