Does anyone know of an appropriate way to differentiate between Windows 2008 Server and 2008 Server Core via installscript? I want to do some custom, specialized actions for Server Core but am unsure how to detect if the installer is running on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I haven't tried it, but apparently there's a GetProductInfo API function (from kernel32.dll) that you can call on a Server 2008 system to identify different flavors of it. MSDN has more information...
So I assume that means I would have to write an external DLL to do it? Either that or maybe a hack job of looking for some file or registry key the exists (or doesn't exist) on Server Core?
I haven't tried that function in particular, but you can often call Windows API functions directly from InstallScript without creating an external DLL. For the general idea---since Windows API functions are in fact DLL functions---please see the help topic "Calling a .dll File Function".
