Prerequisites

Windows Server 2022 OS or higher

For OS installation details, please see here.

Prior to initiating the scripted installation

•Make sure the user account logged in to the sever has FULL Admin rights on the Server

•Make sure the server has access to Windows Update servers. The script needs to install required “Windows Features” (a list is provided below)

•Make sure there is only 1 Active Network Adapter before running the script.

•Set the server date and time zone

•Optionally change the Computer Name if required

•Set a Static IP address on the server (or ensure the IP is reserved and won’t change)

•Configure the mandatory Drive Partitions

Required “Windows Features” installed during the script run

Only required if the server has limited or no access to Windows Update servers.
Make sure to manually install the following requirements prior to running the script.

Be sure to reboot the server after installing/enabling these features before running the script.

Windows Features:

Web-Server, Web-WebServer, Web-Common-Http, Web-Default-Doc, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Http-Errors,

Web-Static-Content, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Health, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Log-Libraries,

Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Performance, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Security,

Web-Filtering, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-CertProvider, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Cert-Auth,

Web-IP-Security, Web-Url-Auth, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-App-Dev, Web-Net-Ext, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-ASP,

Web-Asp-Net, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-WebSockets, Web-Mgmt-Tools,

Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Compat, Web-Metabase, Web-Scripting-Tools

Mandatory Drive Partitions

Please see here: Creating Partitioning Table