Server 2008 has many great features.  One of them is that there is almost nothing installed by default, making for a nice, clean, and secure server install.  When it comes to installing OCS 2007 R2 onto this nice, clean Server 2008 host, you are faced with “what do I need?” and “I know IIS is needed, but look at all the options!”

Fear not.  What follows is a cut n paste ready version of what is needed, with remote admin tools thrown in for good measure.  This is not as fancy as a cute VBS script, but works just as well.  Paste this info into a bat file and execute it on your 2008 Server.

Servermanagercmd -i web-server
Servermanagercmd -i web-webserver
Servermanagercmd -i web-common-http
Servermanagercmd -i web-static-content
Servermanagercmd -i web-dir-browsing
Servermanagercmd -i web-http-errors
Servermanagercmd -i web-http-redirect

Servermanagercmd -i web-isapi-filter

Servermanagercmd -i web-isapi-ext 
Servermanagercmd -i web-health
Servermanagercmd -i web-http-logging
Servermanagercmd -i web-request-monitor
Servermanagercmd -i web-security
Servermanagercmd -i web-basic-auth
Servermanagercmd -i web-windows-auth
Servermanagercmd -i web-digest-auth
Servermanagercmd -i web-filtering
Servermanagercmd -i web-performance
Servermanagercmd -i web-stat-compression
Servermanagercmd -i web-mgmt-tools
Servermanagercmd -i web-mgmt-console
Servermanagercmd -i web-mgmt-compat
Servermanagercmd -i web-metabase
Servermanagercmd -i web-wmi
Servermanagercmd -i web-lgcy-scripting
Servermanagercmd -i web-lgcy-mgmt-console

Servermanagercmd -i rsat
Servermanagercmd -i rsat-addc
Servermanagercmd -i rsat-role-tools
Servermanagercmd -i rsat-web-server

Servermanagercmd -i was
Servermanagercmd -i was-process-model
Servermanagercmd -i was-config-apis

Servermanagercmd.exe -I MSMQ-Server

-John Weber