QUARTER 1

LO 1: SET UP USER ACCESS

SELF- LEARNING MODULE 9 :

Understanding Server Roles

Writer / Illustrator / Layout Artist : Cyrus N. Caruz
Editor/ Reviewer : Virgie M. Alfaras

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Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Technical Vocational Livelihood Education ICT Grade 12 CSS NC II

Module on Set Up User Access: Understanding Server Roles.

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators from
Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its Officer-In-Charge Schools Division
Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A. Agustin in partnership with the Local
Government of Pasig through its Mayor, Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto.
The writers utilized the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential
Learning Competencies (MELC) while overcoming their personal, social, and economic
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This learning material hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners acquire
the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs namely: Communication, Collaboration,
Creativity, Critical Thinking and Character while taking into consideration their needs and
circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of the
module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module. You
also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their own
learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as they do the
tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the Technical Vocational Livelihood Education ICT Grade 12 CSS NC II Module
on Set Up User Access: Understanding Server Roles.

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skill, action and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create and accomplish. Hence,
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Recap - This section will measure what learnings and skills that you
understand from the previous lesson.

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the lessons.

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competency.

Post-test - This will measure how much you have learned from

the entire module.

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 EXPECTATION

After completing the lesson the learners should be able to:

A. understand the different server roles in Windows server 2008 R2
B. identify the functionalities of each server roles.
C. appreciate the importance of server roles in implementing IT server infrastructure.

PRE–TEST

IDENTIFICATION :

Directions: Identify the following role servers in Windows Server 2008 R2.

_______1. Helps you to protect information from unauthorized use.

_______2. Stores information about the objects on the network and makes this information
available to users and network administrators.
_______3. Provides technologies that help you manage storage, enable file replication and
manage shared folders.
_______4. Provides name resolution for TCP/IP networks.
_______5. Enables you to centrally configure, manage and provide temporary IP addresses
and related information for client computers.

RECAP
Multiple Choice

Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Write only the letter that corresponds
to your answer on the space provided before each number.

______1. Part of the basic interface that contains tools for systems administrators and
advanced users.
a. Server manager c. Configuration
b. Administrative tool d. Initial configuration task
_____2. Part of configuration that helps you to schedule automated task that perform
action on specific time or when certain event occurs.
a. Windows Firewall with Advanced Security c. Local Users and Groups
b. WMI Control d. Task Scheduler

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______3. This area includes a table listing installed features on your computer and
provides command links to add and remove features.
a. Diagnostics c. Features Summary
b. Configuration d. Roles Summary
______4. Server Manager console having the lists of roles that are installed in the
computer (server) in alphabetical order.
a. Roles Summary c. Diagnostics
b. Configuration d. Features Summary
______5. Which of the following processor supports Windows Server 2008 R2 version?
a. 32-bit c. Both 32 and 64-bit
b. 64-bit d. None of these

LESSON

Understanding Server Roles

Introduction

Server roles in Windows Server 2008 R2 are used to organize the functionality of the
operating system. The server roles are an expansion of the server roles of previous versions
of Windows, with significant enhancements. Roles usually include a number of related
functions or services that make up the capabilities that the server will offer. A role
designates a primary function of the server, although a given server can have multiple roles
To help organize and manage the expanded functionality of Windows Server 2008
R2, the platform continues to use the roles and features paradigm. The roles and features
enable administrators to add and manage functionality in coherent blocks. This includes
tools to summarize, manage, and maintain the installed roles and features.
This lesson is limited only on the seventeen (17) server roles that can be installed locally on
the server and the overview of each roles. The illustration below is the interface of the list of
roles.

Fig. 1. Interface of server roles.

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 List of roles to be installed can be access by clicking the server manager button. Under
Server Manager, right click roles console and click add roles or click add roles on the
summary page as shown below:

Fig. 2. Accessing the roles.

A verification wizard will

appear to remind you of some
required configuration before you
proceed. Clicking NEXT button will
takes you to the roles to be installed
as shown in fig.1 above.

Fig. 3. A verification
wizard reminding the
required configuration.

The following are the server roles listed in the page:

1. Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) – Used to create certification

authorities and related role services that allow you to issue and manage certificates
used in the variety of applications.
2. Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) – stores information about the objects on
the network and makes this information available to users and network administrators.
3. Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)- provides simplified and secured
identity federation and web -single sign on (SSO) capabilities .
4. Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) – provides a store for
application- specific data for directory-enabled application that do not require
infrastructure of Active Directory Domain Services or AD DS.
5. Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) – helps you to protect
information from unauthorized use.
6. Application Server – provides central management and hosting of high performance
distributed business applications.
7. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server – enables you to centrally con-
figure, manage and provide temporary IP addresses and related information for client
computers.

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8. Domain Name System (DNS) – provides name resolution for TCP/IP networks.
9. Fax Server - sends and receives faxes and allows you to manage fax resources.
10. File Services – provides technologies that help you manage storage, enable file
replication and manage shared folders.
11. Hyper-V – provides the services that you can use to create and manage virtual
machines and their resources.
12. Network Policy and Active Services – provides Network Policy Servers (NPS)
Routing and Remote Access, Health Registration Authority (HRA), and Health
Credential Authorization Protocol (HCAP).
13. Print and Documents Services - enables you to print centralize print server and
network printer manage tasks.
14. Remote Desktop Services – formerly Terminal Services, provides technologies that
enable users to access Windows-based programs that are installed on an RD Session
Host server or to access the full Windows Desktop.
15. Web Server (IIS) - provides a realiable, manageable and scalable Web application
infrastructure.
16. Windows Deployment Services – provides a simplified, secure means of rapidly and
remotely deploying Windows operating systems to computers over the network.
17. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) – allow network administrators to specify
the Microsoft updates that should be installed.

It is not compulsory to install all the roles enumerated above. It depends on your
infrastructure as needed.

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1. Situational

Direction: Read each situation carefully. Provide the necessary roles in the given
situation. Write the appropriate role that corresponds to the given situation
in the space provided before each number. Do this on your worksheet.

_____________________________1. The Systems Administrator wants to store and manage

information about the users, computers and other resources in the network securely. He
is planning to facilitate resources sharing and collaboration among users.
_____________________________2. The company needs an integrated environment for
deploying and running custom business applications that are built with Microsoft.Net
Framework 3.0.
_____________________________3. The company has 100 computer to set up for their newly
opened branch. The Systems Administrator needs to assign valid IP addresses automa –
tically on each computer from the server.
_____________________________4. Most of the users prefer a friendly name which can easily
remember and locate the domain instead of numerical addresses. So the Systems Admi

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nistrator needs to install a server role that will integrate on the Active Directory Domain
Services or AD DS.
____________________________5. For a centralized infrastructure, the IT Manager plans to
make a common file be accessed by the users and share them across the network. Files
must be accessed remotely instead of having to pass the file between two computers.

W RA P – U P

Server roles in Windows Server 2008 R2 are used to organize the functionality of the
operating system. The server roles are an expansion of the server roles of previous versions
of Windows, with significant enhancements. Roles usually include a number of related
functions or services that make up the capabilities that the server will offer. A role
designates a primary function of the server, although a given server can have multiple roles

VALUING

The roles and features enable administrators to add and manage functionality in
coherent blocks. This includes tools to summarize, manage, and maintain the installed
roles and features.

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 POST TEST

Multiple choice

Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Write only the letter that corresponds
to your answer on the space provided before each number. Do this on your worksheet
provided for this activity.

______1. Stores information about the objects on the network and makes this information
available to users and network administrators.
a. Print Server c. AD DS
b. DHCP d. AD CS

_____2. Provides technologies that help you manage storage, enable file replication and
manage shared folders.
a. File Services c. Hyper-V
b. WSUS d. AD DS
______3. It provides name resolution for TCP/IP networks
a. Web Server c. DHCP
b. AD RMS d. DNS
______4. Enables you to centrally configure, manage and provide temporary IP addresses
and related information for clien computers.
a. AD DS c. DNS
b. DHCP d. Print and Documents Services
______5. Used to create certification authorities and related role services that allow you to
issue and manage certificate used in the variety of applications.
a. AD CS c. DNS
b. AD DS d. DHCP

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 KEY TO CORRECTION

E. Features Summary 5. B
5. A
4. A File Services 5.
D. DNS
DNS 4. 4. B
C. File Services 3. C DHCP 3.
3. D
2. D Application Server 2.
B. AD DS
AD DS 1. 2. A
A. AD RMS 1. B
Situational 1. C
ACTIVITY POST TEST
PRETEST : RECAP

R E F E R E N CE S
Online Sites:

https://www.gocit.vn/files/Sams.Windows.Server.2008.R2.Unleashed-www.gocit.vn.pdf
(access July 26, 2020)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/ad-fs-overview
(access July 26, 2020)

Images:
Set Up Computer Servers
Cover Page was designed using Adobe Photoshop 2018 photo manipulation.
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/server.htm
(accessed June 20, 2020)

All images in each figure were originally captured by the writer via Microsoft paint
Windows 10 version 1903(OS Build 18362.900).Copyright 2019 by Microsoft Corp.
from Windows Server 2008 R2 Software

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