Server Core - Install Roles and Features

TipsMake.com - Server Core is a version of Windows Server 2008 with a minimalistic graphical interface: the interface includes only Notepad and Task Manager, no regular Explorer processes . If you want to know what the interface looks like on a regular computer, go to Task Manager and turn off all explorer.exe processes, to return to the normal interface, just go to File > New Task. (Run .) and enter into explorer.exe .

>>>Install Active Directory on Windows 2008 Server Core

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. Below is a list of 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.