Server Core -- Install Roles and Features

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The purpose of this article is to guide the Server Core configuration commands Roles and Features.

Server Core has a limited number of Roles that can be installed on it, including:

* Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) * AD Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) * DNS Server * Internet Information Services (IIS) (No ASP. NET support) * DHCP Server * File Services * Print Services * Streaming Media Services * Hyper V

This does not mean that Server Core cannot do other things. In fact, Microsoft calls other components Features, not Roles. List of supported Features includes:

* Microsoft Failover Cluster (not available in Standard Edition) * Network Load Balancing * Subsystem for UNIX-based applications * Backup * Multipath IO * Removable Storage Management * Bitlocker Drive Encryption * Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) * WINS * Telnet

To install Roles and Features, you will need to use the OCsetup.exe command. OC stands for Optional Components - optional components. The most important thing to remember for this statement is to use it in the case of NECESSARY. The best way to do this is to always use / w with the ocsetup.exe command to keep the Command Prompt active until the installation is successful. The following list covers the commands required to install Roles and Features on Server Core.

DNS start / w ocsetup DNS-Server-Core-Role

DHCP start / w ocsetup DHCPServerCore

File Services (server service is installed by default), but there are other role features

File Replication Service start / w ocsetup FRS-Infrastructure

Distributed File System start / w ocsetup DFSN-Server

Distributed File System Replication start / w ocsetup DFSR-Infrastructure-ServerEdition

Services for Network File System (NFS) start / w ocsetup ServerForNFS-Base start / w ocsetup ClientForNFS-Base

Hyper V start / w ocsetup Microsoft-Hyper-V

Print Server feature start / w ocsetup Printing-ServerCore-Role

Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service start / w ocsetup Printing-LPDPrintService

Enable Directory Lightweight Directory Services start / w ocsetup DirectoryServices-ADAM-ServerCore

Enable Directory Domain Services dcpromo / unattend:

IIS start / w pkgmgr / iu: IIS-WebServerRole; WAS-WindowsActivationService ; WAS-ProcessModel

To uninstall IIS, use the following command start / w pkgmgr / uu: IIS-WebServerRole; WAS-WindowsActivationService ; WAS-ProcessModel

Note : If you need to remove a Role that uses ocsetup to install, all you need to do is use the same old installation command plus add / uninstall .

List of commands needed to install Features on Server Core:

Microsoft Failover Clustering start / w ocsetup FailoverCluster-Core

Network Load Balancing start / w ocsetup NetworkLoadBalancingHeadlessServer

Subsystem for UNIX-based applications start / w ocsetup SUACore

Multipath IO start / w ocsetup MultipathIo

Removable Storage start / w ocsetup Microsoft-Windows-RemovableStorageManagementCore

Bitlocker Drive Encryption start / w ocsetup BitLocker

Backup start / w ocsetup WindowsServerBackup

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) start / w ocsetup SNMP-SC

Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) start / w ocsetup WINS-SC

Telnet client start / w ocsetup TelnetClient

Note : If you need to remove a Feature that has used ocsetup to install, all you need to do is use the same old installation command plus lock / uninstall .

Having installed Roles or Features is not as difficult as configuring those services. The quickest and easiest way to manage Roles and Features is to have a dedicated Terminal Server with AdminPak or Remote Server Administrative Tools (RSAT) installed; or just install the same tools as on XP or Vista.