Nothing too exciting to share right now, except that I upgraded this web server this morning from 2008 R2 to Server 2012. The upgrade went perfectly, all my settings and applications were migrated properly, and most importantly the server was upgraded to IIS 8 and .NET 4.5 with no issues. I figured if there were going to be any problems, it was going to be there, since this website relies heavily on .NET.
I was able to remove the GUI shell, but I had to leave the "Graphical Management Tools and Infrastructure" feature enabled, as the server warned me that some certain important bits like IIS and SMTP might stop working without it. :P