Jason R Stacy
ITT Technical Institute
Email and Web Services NT2670
Mr. Abanilla
September 24, 2014
Unit 1 Chapter Summary Applications in the enterprise come in different forms, client run apps, client/server apps, and distributed apps. The add roles wizard provides roles that fall into three basic categories: Directory services, infrastructure services, and app services. Windows Server 2008 includes a group of features, which you can select individually. You can also use any given role by adding features that increase its capabilities.
The number of roles a server can perform depends on the computer’s hardware configuration, the hardware requirements of the role, and the size and scope of the enterprise.
Distributing server roles among several computers has several advantages, including fault tolerance, ease of resource allocation, …show more content…
The windows server installation option of Windows Server 2008 gives you a stripped down version of the operating system. There is no start menu, no desktop explorer shell, no MMC console, and no graphic applications. All you see when you start the computer is a single window with a command prompt.
A virtual server is a complete installation of an operating system that runs in software pretending to be a real computer. Applications like Microsoft Sever and windows server technology in Windows Server 2008 make it possible for a single computer to host multiple virtual machines, each of which run a completely independent environment.
Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a role included with Windows Server 2008, which lets you perform unattended installations of Windows Server 2008 and other operating systems on remote computers, using network based boot and installation