Microsoft nuked all the fonts except for Arial in Server 2019 core (see eg. [https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-releases-new-windows-server-2019-insider-and-sdk-preview-builds](https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-releases-new-windows-server-2019-insider-and-sdk-preview-builds)).
Makes sense and everyone seems to say "it's easy to add back". But *how* exactly do I go about adding them back? Using
`Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -FeatureName ServerCoreFonts-NonCritical-Fonts-TrueType -all` fails because I have no Windows install disk (I guess, error is "The source files could not be found"). Seems a bit dated that I should need to mount a iso file to install some font packs (and a total mess to do in a Compose file).. How to solve this?
As a background, we are running a buildserver that we just updated from Server 2016 to a Server 2019 container and it turns out we have some PDF creation tests that depends on Fonts being installed...
Windows Server 2019 Core installer fonts
Re: Windows Server 2019 Core installer fonts
You don't, only Arial in a Core container. Use the full windows base image.
From the source [blog post for build 17677](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/05/29/announcing-windows-server-2019-insider-preview-build-17677/):
>
For Server Core containers, only the default font, Arial, is
supported; no other fonts are supported, and no others can be
installed.
From the source [blog post for build 17677](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/05/29/announcing-windows-server-2019-insider-preview-build-17677/):
>
For Server Core containers, only the default font, Arial, is
supported; no other fonts are supported, and no others can be
installed.