Message Queueing
Message Queueing is often used by applications to deliver messages to other applications. It guarantees message delivery and provides routing, security, and messaging based on priority between applications. Applications are able to send and receive messages from the queues. This is very useful when you need the guarantee that the message will get to its end destination, or when an application may not be able to get the message right away because it's busy or offline. If your application requires Message Queueing, your vendor will list it as one of its requirements.
Microsoft Defender Antivirus
This feature is installed by default and was previously known as Windows Defender. It’s a built-in next-generation antivirus solution that’s able to look at files and process behaviors for things that appear malicious. It gets regular updates from signatures and through machine learning and threat research.
Multipath I/O
What happens if your server is connected to its storage through a network switch, and that switch goes down? Your server can’t communicate with its storage any longer. With Multipath I/O, you can allow your server to use multiple paths to your SAN — you could have connections through two separate switches, for instance. If you have connections to two separate switches, your server will still be up and able to access its storage even if one of the switches goes offline. This allows you to build a truly fault-tolerant storage network.
Multipoint Connector
If you’re using Multipoint Services, the Multipoint Connector allows the system to be managed by the Multipoint Manager and the Multipoint Dashboard.
Network Load Balancing
Network Load Balancing (NLB) allows you to spread traffic across multiple servers, which can improve response times because the traffic is evenly distributed. It’s popular with web servers, especially with a stateless application, where the user’s request can be served by a server in the NLB cluster. As load increases, you can simply add more servers to the cluster, and when you need to do maintenance on a particular server, you do so while keeping the other servers in the NLB cluster up. An NLB cluster focuses on reliability and performance, not high availability or fault tolerance.
Network Virtualization
Network Virtualization allows you to create virtual network overlays on the same physical network. If you want to start working with software-defined networking (SDN), this is an important feature to examine. By taking advantage of network virtualization, you can automate the provisioning of networking resources, in addition to other server automation projects you may be working on.
Peer Name Resolution Protocol
Peer Name Resolution Protocol allows applications to register and resolve names on your computer so that other computers on the network can also communicate with these applications. This is especially helpful for systems that are in workgroups, rather than being domain-joined.
Quality Windows Audio Video Experience
Quality Windows Audio Video Experience, also known as qWave, is a networking platform for A/V streaming applications on home IP networks. When it’s installed on a Windows Server OS, it only provides rate of flow and prioritization services.
RAS Connection Manager Administration Kit
The RAS Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK) feature serves a very simple purpose: to create profiles for connecting to remote servers and remote networks. This feature is only available in the Desktop Experience.
Remote Assistance
The Remote Assistance feature allow you, as the support person, to offer remote assistance to your end users. You can view and control the user’s desktop from the server. Remote Assistance requires Desktop Experience.
Remote Differential Compression
Remote Differential Compression can help to optimize bandwidth. It’s able to look at a source and destination object and will only transfer the differences between the objects, rather than transfer the object as a whole.
Remote Server Administration Tools
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) is your best friend as a system administrator. Installing the RSAT feature will give you all the snap-ins and command line management tools to manage roles and features. Typically, when you install a role or a feature that has a management tool in RSAT, you’ll be prompted to install the management tool at the same time. Installing RSAT is traditionally reserved for client-side devices to aid in remote administration tasks, so unless you’re going to administer roles and/or features on the server, you shouldn’t install the tools there.
To install RSAT on your client device, you can download the RSAT installation package from the Microsoft website. For Windows 10 client systems that are not on the October 2018 update, you can download RSAT at www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45520. If you’re using Windows 10 and have the October 2018 update, you don’t need to download the RSAT installer. It’s included as a Feature on Demand, which you can install from the operating system directly.
Install-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools.
RPC over HTTP Proxy
This feature is typically used to support VPN clients that need to communicate over HTTP. It relays RPC traffic over HTTP, as the name suggests.
Setup and Boot Event Collection
This feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2016. With this feature enabled, you can set up your server as a collector, which can be used to gather lots of different types of events from other systems as they boot up or as they go through the setup process. You can view the events once they're collected with Event Viewer as you’re used to.
Simple TCP/IP Services
This feature is provided for backwards compatibility and should not be installed unless it’s required. It’s a collection of utilities used on the command line. The utilities respond to telnet requests on specific ports. Quote of the Day, for example, will give you a random quote when you telnet to port 17.
SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support
If you enable this feature, you’re enabling
