Part II: Preparing the OS on the Stand-alone Primary Site Server

Well... this Server 2012... wonder if I'll ever get used to it !?

First, the usually server installation and configuration (IP, Timezone, locales, domain ao).
We use a proxy (I'll bet this will bring a lot of joy....) so I have to configure this as well.
As we don't have Proxycfg anymore, we will have to use NetSH
(Netsh -u proxy-server:port)

To add the required roles and features, I uses PowerShell.
Open a PowerShell prompt (as Administrator) and type:
Add-WindowsFeature Web-Windows-Auth,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Metabase,Web-WMI,BITS,RDC,NET-Framework-Features,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Asp-Net45,NET-HTTP-Activation,NET-Non-HTTP-Activ,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Redirect,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Health,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-HTTP-Tracing,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Scripting-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Compat -Restart

(if you get amn error, this could be because there are no internet connection when installing .NET3.5.
Then install .NET3.5 through the Server Manager, but point to your installation media)

After installing these roles/features, you must register ASP.NET with IIS.  The simplest way is to open an elevated command prompt: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319>aspnet_regiis.exe –r

Next, you will install "Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 8"

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=30652

Select the following Features:

• Deployment Tools

• Windows PE

• USMT

Then we are ready for installing the SQL server.
(some would install wsus now, using the WID (Windows Internal Database), but I prefer to use the SQL server for WSUS as well)