Dan Thomson at myITforum.com

MDT: Installing OS roles, role services, and features

There is a little bit of information that is not documented in MDT 2008 Update 1 that impacts the resulting deployment when using MDT to install and configure operating system roles, role services, and features for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. 

Michael Niehaus sent the following information to the myITforum SMS email list.  I thought I'd post it here in case someone missed it.

Windows Server 2008 RTM, full version

All roles, role services, and features included in Windows Server 2008 RTM, full version, can be installed using the "Install Roles & Features" action. 

Windows Server 2008 RTM Server Core

The following roles can be installed: 

DirectoryServices-ADAM-ServerCore (when selecting ADLDS)
BitLocker
ClientForNFS-Base (when selecting FS-NFS-Services)
DHCPServerCore (when selecting DHCP)
DNS-Server-Core-Role (when selecting DNS)
FailoverCluster-Core (when selecting Failover-Clustering)
IIS-WebServerRole (when selecting Web-Server)
MultipathIo (when selecting Multipath-IO)
NetworkLoadBalancingHeadlessServer (when selecting NLB)
Printing-ServerCore-Role (when selecting Print-Services)
QWAVE
SNMP-SC (when selecting SNMP-Services)
TelnetClient (when selecting Telnet-Client)
WAS-WindowsActivationService (when selecting WAS)
WindowsServerBackup (when selecting Backup-Features or Backup)
WINS-SC (when selecting WINS-Server)
ADDS

Windows Server 2003

The following roles can be installed: 

IIS (when selecting Web-Server)
Terminal Services (when selecting Terminal-Services)
Windows Deployment Services (when selecting WDS)
DNS
DHCP Server (when selecting DHCP)

WINS (when selecting WINS-Server)

Published Friday, September 12, 2008 1:53 PM by dthomson