Well, the short answer is no.
A colleague of mine recently ran some tests to see whether one could successfully host SharePoint 2007 on Windows Server 2008 Core Edition. Here’s what he said:
“I have done some research lately on the different configurations for MOSS on Windows 2008 and was very interested to see if MOSS can be run on Windows 2008 Core edition.
Now for those who don’t know what Windows 2008 Core edition is, it is an installation that contains the core components of Windows 2008 with no GUI. So, it is command line driven. The reasoning for wanting to use this is that, without all the extra fluffiness of Windows 2008 GUI, the operating system delivers its platform applications at a much higher speed.
But ALAS after some research it’s shown that MOSS 2007 is not supported on Windows 2008 Server Core Edition.“
SharePoint 2007 is supported on the following Windows 2008 Servers:
- Windows Server 2003/2008, Standard Edition
- Windows Server 2003/2008, Enterprise Edition
- Windows Server 2003/2008, Datacenter Edition
- Windows Server 2003/2008, Web Edition
Tagged: SharePoint 2007, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Core
Not a single .NET application will run on Windows Server 2008 Core since it does not support managed code. That’s why you cannot even use PowerShell instead of the POCP (plain old command prompt). That said, WSS/MOSS can’t be installed on Core as it is actually seen as an appliance rather than an interactive server OS.
Yeah, I suppose the fact that .NET doesn’t run on Core limits its potential uses quite a bit.
I am quite certain that MS will lift these restrictions in the future in order to push adoption of Win2K8 Core which is a very useful option in many scenarios.
Hmm, I hope so
People saying that any .NET code wont run on Windows Server 208 R2 Core are incorrect. .NET is now supported andruns on Windows Server 2008 R2 Core.
I have been tyring to get MOSS on Server R2 Core: Check it out at http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=297
However, we just proved that you can install the WIF components manually for our product, which relies on WIF. I suspect you could install the components manually to support SharePoint 2010 as well.