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Installing Windows Features on a server running a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008: Overview

Updated: September 15, 2009

After the Server Core installation is complete and the server is configured, you can install one or more optional features. The Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 supports the following optional features:

Failover Clustering
Network Load Balancing
Subsystem for UNIX-based applications
Windows Server Backup
Multipath IO
Removable Storage
BitLocker Drive Encryption
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
Telnet client
QWAVE

The following procedure describes how to install these features on a server running a Server Core installation.

Note
Failover Clustering is not available in Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition.

Prerequisites for installing an optional feature on a server running a Server Core installation

The following optional features require appropriate hardware:

Failover Clustering
Network Load Balancing
Multipath IO
Removable Storage
BitLocker Drive Encryption

Note
For more information about the hardware that is required for optional features, see the Additional References section at the end of this document.

There are no prerequisites for the following optional features:

Subsystem for UNIX-based applications
Windows Server Backup
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
Telnet client
QWAVE

Known issues for installing an optional feature on a server running a Server Core installation

There are no known issues for installing an optional feature on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008.

Steps for installing an optional feature on a server running a Server Core installation

To install an optional feature on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008, perform the following procedure.

Note
The Ocsetup.exe syntax is case sensitive so be sure to follow the examples explicitly.

Available optional features

To discover the available optional features, open a command prompt and type the following:

Oclist

This command lists the server roles and optional features that are available for use with Ocsetup.exe. It also lists the server roles and optional features that are currently installed.

To install an optional feature

At a command prompt, type:

start /w ocsetup <featurename>

Where featurename is the name of a feature from the following list:

Failover Clustering: FailoverCluster-Core
Network Load Balancing: NetworkLoadBalancingHeadlessServer
Subsystem for UNIX-based applications: SUACore
Multipath IO: MultipathIo
Removable Storage: Microsoft-Windows-RemovableStorageManagementCore
BitLocker Drive Encryption: BitLocker

Note
To install the remote administration tool for BitLocker, type the following at a command prompt: start /w ocsetup BitLocker-RemoteAdminTool

Note

To install the remote administration tool for BitLocker, type the following at a command prompt:

start /w ocsetup BitLocker-RemoteAdminTool

Windows Server Backup: WindowsServerBackup
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP): SNMP-SC
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS): WINS-SC
Telnet client: TelnetClient
QWAVE: QWAVE

Note
To remove an optional feature, use start /w ocsetup with the appropriate role name and the /uninstall switch.

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