Server Core Roles
Server Core supports the following server roles on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2:
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
DHCP Server
DNS Server
File Services
Hyper-V
Print Services
Streaming Media Services
Web Server (IIS)
Active Directory Certificate Services
Windows Server Update Server (WSUS)
Active Directory Rights Management Server
Routing and Remote Access Server, including the following sub-roles:
- Remote Desktop Services Connection Broker
- Licensing
- Virtualization
Server Core supports the following features on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2:
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
- Windows PowerShell
- Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
- BitLocker Drive Encryption
- BitLocker Network Unlock
- BranchCache
- Data Center Bridging
- Enhanced Storage
- Failover Clustering
- Multipath I/O
- Network Load Balancing
- Peer Name Resolution Protocol
- Quality Windows Audio Video Experience
- Remote Differential Compression
- Simple TCP/IP Services
- RPC over HTTP Proxy
- SMTP Server
- SNMP Service
- Telnet client
- Telnet server
- TFTP client
- Windows Internal Database
- Windows PowerShell Web Access
- Windows Process Activation Service
- Windows Standards-based Storage Management
- WinRM IIS extension
- WINS server
- WoW64 support