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Today I am going to tell how many roles and features there are in Windows Server 2012. NOTE:  I included all of the sub-roles and sub-features as well for all except for the Remote Server Administration Tools, which would show a tool for all of the roles and features. Roles: 1. Active Directory Certificate Services 2. Active Directory Domain Services 3. Active Directory Federation Services 4. Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 5. Active Directory Rights Management Services 6. Application Server 7. DHCP Server 8. DNS Server 9. Fax Server 10. File and Storage Services a. File and iSCSI Services i. File Server ii. BranchCache for Network Files iii. Data Deduplication iv. DFS Namespaces v. DFS Replication vi. File Server Resource Manager vii. File Server VSS Agent Services viii. iSCSI Target Server ix. iSCSI Target Storage Provider x. Server for NFS b. Storage Services 11. Hyper-V 12. Network Policy and Access Services 13

Windows Server 2012 codenamed Windows Server 8 is the most recent version of the operating system from Microsoft regarding server management. But it is not the last one, as the last one is Windows Server 2016. Officially it was released on August 1st, 2012 and is being sold as a commercial version only. Improvements in Windows Server 2012 The major Improvements on this version are as follows − It is ready to be integrated with cloud systems and it still can maintain the classic features of local datacenters as a result  Hyper-V Virtualization  has new features  Hyper-v replicas , it allows you to create virtual machines replications between clusters and storage systems. The  Storage migration  virtual disks can be moved to different physical storages, Virtual machine snapshots, virtual machines can be deleted from the Hyper-v and also from the virtual disks and it can be used directly without the need to shut down the virtual machine. The  Core server installation  easi