The other day I was trying to install a certain software on Windows Server 2008 R2 but the application required Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 which I downloaded and tried to install but got an error that looked like this: You must use the Role Management Tool to install or configure Microsoft .NET Thinking the framework was incompatible with the OS, I downloaded the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and installed it successfully. To my surprise, the application still didn't work and still asked for version 3.5 of the framework. After doing some findings, I realized Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 was even an inbuilt component that comes with Windows Server 2008 R2 and has to be installed as a feature ...Read more