Windows Server 2019 Administration Fundamentals - Second Edition

Understanding role services

Other than adding roles to the server and, with it, determining the server's primary function, there are situations when you need to also add role services. That said, the question is: what are role services? Let's try to understand role services with the following example. Assume that you want to have an internet print server so that employees can print from outside the company's network (that is, via, extranet). To do that, you add the Print and Document Services (PDS) role to your server and then you add Internet Printing as a role service, as in Figure 6.21. That way, you augment the functionality of the role.