Roles available in Server Core

Server Core is obviously a restricted form of the operating system, and some of the roles inside Windows Server are just not designed to work properly within that limited context. Fortunately for us, most of them are, which enables Server 2022 administrators to deploy most of their critical infrastructure via the more secure Server Core platform. Here is a list of the roles that are currently supported to run on a Windows Server 2022 Server Core instance, and I marked the ones in bold that I see most often used within the businesses I work with:

• Active Directory Certificate Services
• Active Directory Domain Services
• Active Directory Federation Services
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
• Active Directory Rights Management Services
• Device Health Attestation
• DHCP Server
• DNS Server
• File and Storage Services
• Host Guardian Service
• Hyper-V
• Print and Document Services
• Remote Access
• Remote Desktop Services*
• Volume Activation Services
• Web Server (IIS...