When
installing Server Core Windows Server 2012 in Server Core mode, not all
features and roles available in windows server 2012 supported by the core
version
this
article explains all roles and features supported by the core version
When
installing Windows Server 2012 in Server Core mode, the following server roles
are supported (13 role) :
- Active Directory Certificate Services
- Active Directory Domain Services
- DHCP Server
- DNS Server
- File Services (including File Server Resource Manager)
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
- Hyper-V
- Print and Document Services
- Streaming Media Services
- Web Server (including a subset of ASP.NET)
- Windows Server Update Server
- Active Directory Rights Management Server
- Routing and Remote Access Server, including the following sub-roles:
1- Remote Desktop Services Connection Broker
2- Licensing
3- Virtualization
When
installing Windows Server 2012 in Server Core mode, the following server
features are supported (29 Features) :
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
- Windows PowerShell
- Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
- BitLocker Drive Encryption
- BitLocker Network Unlock
- BranchCache
- Data Center Bridging
- Enhanced Storage
- Failover Clustering
- Multipath I/O
- Network Load Balancing
- Peer Name Resolution Protocol
- Quality Windows Audio Video Experience
- Remote Differential Compression
- Simple TCP/IP Services
- RPC over HTTP Proxy
- SMTP Server
- SNMP Service
- Telnet client
- Telnet server
- TFTP client
- Windows Internal Database
- Windows PowerShell Web Access
- Windows Process Activation Service
- Windows Standards-based Storage Management
- WinRM IIS extension
- WINS server
- WoW64 support