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Windows IoT in a server role

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if windows IoT is intended to play a server role. Actually I think all IoT devices are intended to play a client role since they gather context info and send it to a server which manages that info.

I'm tackling a project where we need to build a web server to serve a frontend written in angular which will connect with a backend written in python and I'm curious about Windows IoT capabilities to accomplish this tasks.

What do you think?

Thank you all.

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Hi Sean,

Apparently "Windows Server IoT 2019 is a full version of Windows Server 2019 that delivers enterprise manageability and security to IoT solutions." So it's not actually a Windows IoT version intended to play a server role.

My point is that I need to use an embedded device as a server, and I'm not sure if Windows IoT is suitable to work as a server.

What do you think?

Thank you anyway :D


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There are many server rolls, but if you are only looking for a web or ftp server, IIS is build into Windows 10 IoT Enterprise. You would have to test this out yourself to see if it meets the demands of your applications.

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Ok, so I should try the Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, ... the point now is that I have to create the FFU images and I cannot do it with a greater version of 1809 according this repo

Do you know if there is some way to get the Windows 10 Enterprise 1809 version to build the images?

Thank you again.


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Again, thank you very much, you were completely right, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC works pretty well to create Windows 10 IoT Enterprise FFU images. I have my device working as expected!

My question now is ... You said "IIS is build into Windows 10 IoT Enterprise.", so ... I'm wondering ... should I enable it? how could I do a little test to know if it's actually enabled and working? I've checking for documentation about how to use IIS in Windows IoT but I couldn't find anything useful. Could you recommend me some resources?

I will appreciate your help.

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