Monday, June 16, 2014
Deployment: Prerequisites for Windows Server 2012 R2

Press the Start key on your keyboard, and start typing “features”. In the search results pane, select “Turn windows features on or off”.

Turning Windows features on in Windows Server 2012 R2.

This will open the Add Roles and Features Wizard. Press Next to continue past the Before you Begin page.

The first page of the Add Roles and Features wizard.

Select “Role-based installation” and press Next.

Selecting the installation type.

Select the local server, and press Next again.

Selecting the server to add roles to.

Check the box next to “.NET Framework 4.5 Features | ASP.NET 4.5”.

Enabling ASP.NET 4.5 Features.

Select “Web Server (IIS)” from the list, and click Add Features button to finish.

Adding the Web Server (IIS) Role.

Expand “Web Server (IIS) | Web Server | Application Development” node, and check the nodes “Application Development”, “.NET Extensibility 4.5”, “Application Initialization”, “ASP.NET 4.5”, “ISAPI Extensions”, and “ISAPI Filters”.

Enabling the required application development roles.

Continue pressing Next, then press Install when necessary. This step may take some time.

Installing the roles onto the server.

Once complete, press Close to exit the wizard.

The role installation has been completed.