The role, role service, or feature name is not valid: 'InkandHandwritingServices'. The name was not found Office Online Server

Question

I am following Official Microsoft Guide to install Office online Server and Getting below error while running the below command:

Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,InkandHandwritingServices,NET-Framework-Features,NET-Framework-Core,NET-HTTP-Activation,NET-Non-HTTP-Activ,NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,Windows-Identity-Foundation,Server-Media-Foundation

It gave me below Error:

The role, role service, or feature name is not valid: 'InkandHandwritingServices'. The name was not found

Answer 1

Found the Issue: the problem is There are two versions of the command one is for windows server 2012 and another is for window server 2016.

The "InkandHandwritingServices" are no longer supported in 2016 so you need to use the modified version of the command in powersell as given below:

Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,NET-Framework-Features,NET-Framework-45-Features,NET-Framework-Core,NET-Framework-45-Core,NET-HTTP-Activation,NET-Non-HTTP-Activ,NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,Windows-Identity-Foundation,Server-Media-Foundation

Also you can check your current version of the OS by typing:

Open Run=> Ctrl+R

type in run => winver

Press enter

and then you can see the current version of the OS.