I would to introduce any concepts about Windows 2008 server Core roles, but before starting with installation procedure is necessary to spend some words about prerequisites and know issues that we need to consider before begin. 

At first you need to know that server Core, after installation, needs any settings how Server Name, Fix IP address, Administrator password, and eventually needs to be joined at your domain, and about this you can find information in my precedent post “Getting started with server 2008 core”

 Well, after this it’s important to remember that server Core when start has any services how firewall that doesn’t permit remote management and for many server roles it needful to have access to remote management.  

 

To do this please following the procedures below:  

  Configure firewall:  

 

Use the netsh advfirewall command to enable remote management from any MMC snap-in, type the following:   netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Administration" new enable=yes        To manage a server running a Server Core installation by using an MMC snap-in     1.    If the server running a Server Core installation is not a member of a domain, establish alternate credentials to use to connect to the Server Core installation by typing the following command at a command prompt on your client computer:   cmdkey /add:<servername> /user:<username> /pass:<password>  Where:       ServerName is the name of the server running a Server Core installation.  UserName is the name of an administrator account.        To be prompted for a password, omit the /pass option.    2.  When prompted, enter the password for the user name that is specified in the previous step.    3.  Start an MMC snap-in, such as Computer Management.    4.  In the left pane, right-click the top of the tree and click Connect to another computer. (In the Computer Management example, you would right click Computer Management (Local).)  5.  In Another computer, type the computer name of the server running a Server Core installation and click OK.    6.  You can now use the MMC snap-in to manage the server running a Server Core installation as you would any other computer running a Windows Server operating system.

Notes  

You can also use the Windows Firewall snap-in from a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 computer to remotely manage the firewall on a server running a Server Core installation. To do this, you must first enable remote management of the firewall by running the following command on the computer running a Server Core installation:  

netsh advfirewall set currentprofile settings remotemanagement enable
 

 The Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 supports the following server roles:  

 

·         Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)  

·         Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)  

·         DHCP Server  

·         DNS Server  

·         File Services 

·         Print Services  

·         Streaming Media Services  

·         Web Server (IIS) 

 

More information about the command-line tools for configuring the server roles is available in the next posts, I will publish other two post for better subdivide installation of server roles.  

Prerequisites for installing a server role on a server running Server Core installation  

 

To complete this task, you need the following: 

 

·         A computer on which you have installed and configured a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008.  

·         An administrator user account and password for the server running the Server Core installation.  

·         If installing and configuring a print server, another computer running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 on which you can run the Print Management Console to remotely configure the print server.  

·         If installing and configuring a DHCP server, the information required to configure a DHCP scope.  

·         If installing and configuring a DHCP server, you must configure the server running the Server Core installation to use a static IP Address.  

·         If installing and configuring a DNS server, the information required to configure a DNS zone.  

·         If installing and configuring an Active Directory environment, the information required to either join an existing domain or to create a new domain.  

·         If you are going to promote the server running the Server Core installation to be a domain controller in an Active Directory domain, a domain administrator user name and password.  

Know issues for installing a server role on a Server Core installation 

 

 

•         It should be better to have Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 to manage some roles remotely 
•      You cannot use the Active Directory Domain Controller Installation Wizard (Dcpromo.exe) on a server running Server Core installation. You must use an unattend file with Dcpromo.exe to install or remove the domain controller role. 
• Alternately, you can run Dcpromo.exe on another Windows Server 2008 computer and use the wizard to save an unattend file that you can then use on the server running Server Core installation (I will publish a specific article about this topic).  

·         The Web Server (IIS) role does not support ASP.NET in Server Core installations. Because there is no support for managed code, the following IIS features are not available in Server Core installations:  

·         IIS-ASPNET  

·         IIS-NetFxExtensibility  

·         IIS-ManagementConsole  

·         IIS-ManagementService  

·         IIS-LegacySnapIn  

·         IIS-FTPManagement  

·         WAS-NetFxEnvironment  

·         WAS-ConfigurationAPI