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<blockquote data-quote="Stilez" data-source="post: 1111586" data-attributes="member: 150609">&lt;trigger warning: anxiety ahead&gt;:This is where I hesitate too. I can see why [USER=74879]@HTPC_Sourcer[/USER] says to follow a tried and trusted route that uses standard setups. But I'm not a sysadmin, I'm just a heavy data user who uses file serving features. I've no knowledge - even basic - about the implications of enabling a ton of new services or AD, don't have a clue what AD's impact would be on my network or how to secure or manage any dependencies the role would add to the server functions, and there's no detail listed about what config would be needed for the new role once added ([USER=16968]@4Fred[/USER]'s post says some config will be needed of the new role, without detail).I took a look at the server manager, and it seems to want to enable a ton of obscure functions irrelevant to simple file serving with this role. Can they be disabled after the needed media parts are installed?Sorry for the apprehension, perhaps a bit of sympathy as I bought Server due to increasingly heavy database work, to robustly file serve and file deduplicate,which is a core competence of a server OS, not because I'm a sysadmin or know much about the other server functions. I know what I need to know about Servers to serve my NTFS shares more efficiently. And yeah, I don't want the thread to divert into &quot;server admin support thread&quot;, and doubt anyone here would do that. If the config needed for Essentials role is relatively obvious and non-impacting, that would be worth knowing.[USER=74879]@HTPC_Sourcer[/USER], does your comment about IIS and WebMediaExtended mean they can be disabled afterwards, once it's all working? As I have no idea how one would secure a web server like IIS, so disabling would be better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stilez, post: 1111586, member: 150609"] [I]<trigger warning: anxiety ahead>:[/I] This is where I hesitate too. I can see why [USER=74879]@HTPC_Sourcer[/USER] says to follow a tried and trusted route that uses standard setups. But I'm not a sysadmin, I'm just a heavy data user who uses file serving features. I've no knowledge - even basic - about the implications of enabling a ton of new services or AD, don't have a clue what AD's impact would be on my network or how to secure or manage any dependencies the role would add to the server functions, and there's no detail listed about what config would be needed for the new role once added ([USER=16968]@4Fred[/USER]'s post says some config will be needed of the new role, without detail). I took a look at the server manager, and it seems to want to enable a ton of obscure functions irrelevant to simple file serving with this role. Can they be disabled after the needed media parts are installed? Sorry for the apprehension, perhaps a bit of sympathy as I bought Server due to increasingly heavy database work, to robustly file serve and file deduplicate,which is a core competence of a server OS, not because I'm a sysadmin or know much about the other server functions. I know what I need to know about Servers to serve my NTFS shares more efficiently. And yeah, I don't want the thread to divert into "server admin support thread", and doubt anyone here would do that. If the config needed for Essentials role is relatively obvious and non-impacting, that would be worth knowing. [USER=74879]@HTPC_Sourcer[/USER], does your comment about IIS and WebMediaExtended mean they can be disabled afterwards, once it's all working? As I have no idea how one would secure a web server like IIS, so disabling would be better. [/QUOTE]

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