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Features on demand

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Features on demand

- [Instructor] The final topic for this chapter on managing roles and features is features on demand. This was introduced in Server 2012 and Windows 8 and it involves the Windows installer copying the installation files from the disk or image to our hard drive for us. There was a time when we needed to add a role or a feature to a workstation or server that we had to go get the installation media and place it in the drive so that we could have those files available to install that feature. With the advent of features on demand, we've all gotten used to taking our installation media and putting it away and never needing it again. It creates this on demand availability by creating a folder in the Windows directory named Windows SxS, for side by side. And that is convenient because we can have those files around whenever we need to do an installation. But we have found the downside to having those files sitting on every server. We now recognize that we are using a few gigabytes of…

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