While I won’t bore you with the typical thick-finger problems when working with Notepad.exe, the antiquated interfaces of appcmd.exe, and the likes of iisvdir.vbs, iisweb.vbs and iisext.vbs, I will dive into the wonderful world of IIS PowerShell management. Your best bet would be to remotely manage your Server Core FTP server. There’s one PowerShell cmdlet, named New-WebFTPSite, that allows you to create FTP sites, but it’s not very elaborate. On the console of your Server Core installation, there aren’t many management tools you can use to manage your FTP server.
#Core ftp server install#
This PowerShell command will install the binaries, set up the folder structure and service, and enable the firewall rules to allow non-secured FTP traffic. To install the FTP Server IIS Role Service with default options, run the following PowerShell command (type PowerShell at the command prompt if you haven’t done so): Install-WindowsFeature Web-FTP-Server Installing an FTP Server on Server Core ^ Don’t worry, though-your Server Core FTP server won’t be hosting websites- just an FTP server. As you might expect from reading the previous parts of this series, when you install the FTP server ( Web-FTP-Server), FTP Service is installed and configured by default, whereas FTP Extensibility needs to be installed manually afterwards.Ī checkmark will also be set in front of the Web Server IIS Server Role. These two Role Services are part of the FTP Server IIS Role Service. It allows you to create your own authentication, authorization, and auditing providers. The FTP Extensibility Role Service gives you the ability to extend the built-in functionality that ships with the FTP Service. Since we’ve got all the Role Services covered, today we’ll focus on the two FTP server-related IIS Role Services under the FTP Server Role Service:įTP Service is the main service, handling all the authentication, authorization, and file transfers for the FTP server. Overview of FTP Services on Server Core ^Īs you saw in the previous post, the IIS Server Role on Server Core is the most elaborate and modular Server Role you will find on this platform.
#Core ftp server windows#
With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft sets the record straight and releases a full-featured FTP server, bundled with the operating system-ready to use, without the need to first bring (installation) files to your Server Core installation.
Besides Secure Publishing, it also featured IPv6 support, virtual host names, user isolation, improved directory browsing, and authentication for non-Windows accounts.
FTP 7.5 was released out of band for Windows Server 2008 R2. To this purpose, both the FTP data channel and the FTP control channel (for credentials and FTP commands) to transfer files come with an RFC-based implementation of FTPS (FTP over SSL), which allows you to encrypt data on the control channel, on the data channel, or on both channels. The ability to encrypt FTP traffic with SSL was first introduced in FTP 7.5 and called Secure Publishing. Thus, the transfer of data with FTP on these platforms (as with all older Windows Server platforms with built-in FTP servers) is unencrypted and can be intercepted while in transit.
With that being said, you might not want to use Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Web Server 2008 as an FTP server, since these two Windows Server editions do not offer the ability to run an FTP server with SSL. Windows Server 2008, Windows Web Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012 all came with IIS, which is the main Server Role to turn Windows Server into an FTP server. Because the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is adjacent, today, in its use cases to web servers, Microsoft has shared the FTP Server Role Service under the Internet Information Services (IIS) Server Role, like the many web server Role Services I discussed in the previous part of this series.ĭue to this grouping, you can use any Server Core installation as an FTP server, just as you can use any Server Core installation as a web server.
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