How to do it...

To install a role and a feature into Windows, perform the following steps:

  1. Open Server Manager. In the middle of the screen, you'll see a link that says Add roles and features. Click on that link.
  2. Click Next on the first summary screen and you will come to a choice on the second page. For most roles and features, we want to leave it set at the top bullet, which is Role-based or feature-based installation. If we were Configuring Remote Desktop Services, which we will discuss in another chapter, then we would choose the second option.
  1. Now we choose where we want to install a new role or feature. This is a neat page, as we can choose from any server that we have added into our Server Manager, or we can even choose to install ...

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