Sunday, April 06, 2008 9:09 PM
Kurt Roggen
UPDATE: Installing RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) components unattended
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. It includes support for remote management of computers running a Server Core or Full Server installation of Windows Server 2008. This feature has been requested by customers as a replacement for the Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack.
Installing RSAT is a 2 step process:
- Installing RSAT package
- Installing the RSAT components
After installing the RSAT update package (Windows6.0-KB941314-x86.msu/Windows6.0-KB941314-x64.msu) - containing most feature and role based administration tools - these snapins are accessible through Control Panel/Programs & Features/Windows Features - for installation.
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But how do you get RSAT installed on your Vista SP1 administrator machines in an unattended way.
Quite simple... Follow the above described 2 step process:
- wusa Windows6.0-KB941314-x86.msu /quiet
- start /w ocsetup <component>
Below you can find a list of the current RSAT components available for installation on Windows Vista SP1.
| RSAT-Components in Vista via OCsetup | Other Components |
| WindowsAdministrationTools WindowsAdministrationTools-Features
WindowsAdministrationTools-Features-BitLocker
WindowsAdministrationTools-Features-Clustering (*new*)
WindowsAdministrationTools-Features-GP
WindowsAdministrationTools-Features-LoadBalancing
WindowsAdministrationTools-Features-SmtpServer
WindowsAdministrationTools-Features-StorageManager
WindowsAdministrationTools-Features-Wsrm (*new*) WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-CertificateServices
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-CertificateServices-CA
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-CertificateServices-OnlineResponder (*new*)
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-DomainServices
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-DomainServices-DC
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-DomainServices-NIS
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-ADLDS
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-DHCP (*new*)
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-DNS (*new*)
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-FileServices
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-FileServices-Dfs
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-FileServices-Fsrm (*new*)
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-FileServices-StorageMgmt
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-TS
WindowsAdministrationTools-Roles-UDDI | TelnetClient
TelnetServer
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Installing RSAT components in Windows Server 2008 (full installation) is much more straight forward via ServerManagerCmd.
To find the list of available RSAT component names in Windows Server 2008 use ServerManagerCmd.exe -query.
I already discussed this in a previous post: "Server Manager - Adding Roles & Features"
However, not all Windows Server 2008 administrative tools are available on Vista, not even all information within those administrative tools are available...
More about this in my next post!
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Filed under: WindowsServer2008, WindowsVista, RSAT