Administrator Guide

Preinstalled roles and services configurations on your
system
Server roles, role services, and features are preinstalled and configured on your system based on your organization's
requirements.
Roles and Role Services
Preinstalled roles and role services include:
File and Storage Services Manages file servers and storage.
File and iSCSI Services Manages file servers and storage, replicate and cache files,
reduces disk space utilization, and shares files using NFS
protocol.
File Server Manages shared folders and enables user to access files on
the system from the network.
Data Deduplication Works at the volume level and stores mode data in less
physical disk space. Data-Deduplication identifies duplicate
data chunks and maintains a single copy of each chunk. A
redundant copy replaces the reference to a single copy.
DFS Namespaces Groups shared folders on different servers into one or more
logically structured namespaces.
DFS Replication Synchronizes folders on multiple servers across Local-or Wide
Area Network (WAN) connections.
File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) Manages files and folders on a file server by scheduling tasks
and storage reports, classifying files, configuring quotas, and
defining file screening policies.
File Server VSS Agent Service Performs volume shadow copies of applications that store
data files on file server.
iSCSI Target Server Provides services and management to the iSCSI targets.
iSCSI Target Storage Provider (VDS and VSS hardware
providers)
Enables applications on a server that is connected to an iSCSI
target to perform volume shadow copies of data on iSCSI
virtual disks.
Server for NFS Shares files with UNIX-based systems and other systems that
use the NFS protocol.
Work Folders Allows users to access their work files from various devices
and keeps them synchronized whether users access their files
from inside the network or from across the Internet.
Storage Services Provides storage management functions.
Features
Preinstalled features include:
.NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0) and 4.5
Features
Uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) activation
service to invoke the applications remotely on the network by
using HTTP or TCP protocols.
Multipath I/O Provides support for using multiple data paths to a storage
device on Windows.
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