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Something that's new to Windows Server 2008 is the idea of roles and features, and let's, I want to show you these things in part 1 in this video and we'll continue this topic across a couple of videos here probably. But, I'm at the Windows Server 2008 Desktop and if I click on Start, you'll notice right up here on the menu, is the Server Manager, so I'm going to open the Server Manager and go into there and one of the things that you're going to notice, I'm going to make this full screen size here, one of the things that you'll notice is that I can get into in here, I can manage the roles on the server and if I click on that, you will notice that I have 3 of 16 installed, now what happens when you install Windows Server 2008 for security reasons, optimization reasons, ease of installation and so forth, you really install just a bare bones box. Bare metal box if you will, it does not have any of these roles turned on, I have turned on these roles and in later videos I'll show you how to set these up and turn them on, but if you'll notice, I can expand roles over here and I can see the roles that I have already turned on, but to add a role, notice right over here in the details thing, I can click on Add Roles, and what this is going to begin is the add roles wizard, and this is explaining to me what I have to have to be able to do this and so forth, I can skip this in the future by default if I would like, but now notice, there is a number of, there's 16 roles here and let me just go through them real quickly, notice you have Active Directory Security Services, or Certificate Services, I'm sorry, This lets you set up and manage your public key certificates, your public key infrastructure, and so forth. Active Directory domain services, you know what that is probably, that is your home Active Directory where you're storing all your directory information about users, computers, other devices, and this is where we also manage such things as any kind of directory-enabled applications like Exchange Server and so forth. Some new ones that you probably haven't seen is Active Directory Federation Services, now this is part of Microsoft's initiative to provide a web single sign on technology so that a user can basically be authenticated in multiple web applications using a single user account. And it does this by sharing a user identity's access rights in the form of digital claims between quote "partner organizations," and that's the big thing. But this is something that's coming okay, and you're going to see more of it. The Lightweight Directory Services, you may have applications that require a directory for storing application data and you can use Active Directory Lightweight Services as the data store. Now this runs as a non-operating service and it doesn't require deployment on an exchange controller, but this is very interesting because this means that we can now store data in directory services and it gets kind of replicated around the Network automatically and so forth. Rights Management Services, this is an information protection technology, you've heard about this a lot, with such things as iTunes and music and so forth, and this just has to do with that whole thing, we're going to bring that into the corporate environment. We now have regulations of HIPPA and Sarbanes-Oxley that really tighten down on how our data has to be protected and a personal data protection is about to become a huge issue in our world. Application Server, this one's pretty straight forward, this one provides a complete solution for hosting and managing high performance distributed business apps, okay? this is where the .NET Framework, web server support, message cuing, com plus, failover clustering and so forth comes into play. DHCP server, pretty standard dynamic host control configuration protocol. It can work as that, we can set it up as our DNS server, we can also set it up as a fax server. That is what you're getting here. By picking and choosing which one of these we do, we're very, you know, very poignantly limiting what the server has to do and that helps us in a bunch of ways. A lot lower maintenance, also, a lot less hassle on adding things like service packs and patches and so forth because we don't add something and it breaks something else. Kind of start chasing ourselves that way. But we're going to actually pick and choose, now, if we combine this with Virtualization, which I talked about in another video, then we can put certain roles on certain computers, and we can virtualize those, so that again, we get absolute total optimization because you always hear a lot of things, you want to be very careful about what computers you have domain, Active Directory Domain Services running because that can be a pretty serious load on a computer and it's a very important service and you don't want to combine a bunch of other services onto a domain controller, okay? It can create some issues for you. So, as you can see these server roles gives you a whole lot of control over what's going to happen. File Services, File Services provides technology for Storage Management, file replication, distributed name space management, fast file searching, then just, this is where the files live that the clients access on a day to day basis. Network Policy and Access Services, this is where your routing and remote access, your Host Credential Authorization Protocol starts to live and so forth. And with Network Access Services, you can deploy VPN servers, dial-up servers, routers, you can set up wireless access, you can also deploy radio servers and proxies and you can use the communication manager administration kit to create remote access profiles that allow client computers to connect to your network. So a lot of things can happen here, okay? That's it for this video, we'll continue this in part 2.