How to check if you’re running on a Windows Core Edition
While writing my SQL Server template installer, I ran into a big problem – I had to determine if my server was a Core Edition or not, based on the Windows edition. The biggest challenge was that it had to be as OS-independent as possible. Our customers run several OSs, so I needed something that could run on Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 R2 and be future-proof for Windows 2016.
