Installing Roles and Features on Windows Server 2025 Core Edition

The goal of this lab is for you to practice installing roles and features on Server Core. You will complete these tasks with PowerShell, so keep in mind that you can complete these same steps on Server Desktop Experience if you open PowerShell.

Session duration: 60 minutes· Typical launch: ~3 min

Difficulty

Intermediate

Lab level

Lab VMs

1 Hyper-V

XP Reward

300 XP

On completion

Virtual machines

Lab VMs

Hyper-V

Virtual Machine

Username / Password

user / password123

Connection type

In-browser RDP (nested)

CPU / RAM

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Lab instructions

Follow the steps below to complete the lab.

Before you can install the DNS Server Role, you need to access the Server Powershell Command prompt. In this step, you will login and install the DNS Server Role.

Click on the ... button on the Remote Desktop screen.
Click Ctrl+Alt+Del button.
Type for the Administrator the password password123.

NOTE: You can click on the ... button on the Remote Desktop screen to close the menu.

Lets verify if the role is install by typing: Get-WindowsFeature -Name DNS.
Run the following command to install the DNS Server role: Install-WindowsFeature -Name DNS -IncludeManagementTools
After installation completes, run again the following to verify that DNS was installed: Get-WindowsFeature -Name DNS
Verify DNS Service is Running (Optional but Recommended): Get-Service -Name DNS
Click Check Step.