As discussed in earlier chapters of this book, Microsoft added DNS support for Nano Server. This support brings a convenient choice to run core infrastructure services on top of Nano Server which increase security and minimize disk footprint. So, instead of having a 12 GB image to run only Domain Name System (DNS) on Server with Desktop Experience and 7 GB for Server Core, you can use Nano Server with less than 1 GB of disk space and achieve the same thing.
The following section will detail the deployment of a very basic Nano Server configuration. For a more thorough explanation of deployment and configuration options, please check Chapter 2, Getting Started with Nano Server.
Follow the following steps to create a VHD(X) image for Nano Server to be used as a DNS server so we can run Domain Name System (DNS) on top of Nano Server:
- Mount Windows Server 2016 ISO media on your machine. In this example, it's mounted on the
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drive. - Start Windows PowerShell as administrator...