Installing operating system components

Before performing the installation of the ConfigMgr server, the operating system needs to be properly prepared. Firstly, we need to install the required roles and features for the server:

When installing IIS role, the following components should be installed:

• Application Development: ASP.NET 3.5, .NET Extensibility 3.5, .NET Extensibility 4.5, ISAPI Extensions
• Security: Windows authentication
• IIS 6 Management Compatibility: IIS Management Console, IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility, IIS 6 WMI Compatibility, IIS Management Scripts and Tools

Apart from server roles, a few additional features also need to be installed:

This is a list of all the features required by the ConfigMgr server:

• .NET Framework 3.5 and all sub-features
• .NET Framework 4.6 and all sub-features
• Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) and all sub-features
• Remote Differential Compression

After having installed all the required updates, we can now go to the next stage--installing MS SQL Server.