Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:13 AM
Kurt Roggen
RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools): what's included and what's NOT!!
I'm sure by now, you've heard and read it many times: the next generation of adminpak tools is out, allowing remote administration for Windows Server 2003/2008 from a Vista SP1 client. But some stuff is actually still missing...
The following list of Windows Server 2008 administration tools are included in RSAT:
| Role Administration Tools: - Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Tools
- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Tools (DC and NIS)
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Tools
- DHCP Server Service Tools
- DNS Server Service Tools
- File Server Service Tools (DFS, FSRM, Storage Mgmt)
- Terminal Services Tools
- Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Services Tools
| Feature Administration Tools - BitLocker Drive Encryption Tools
- Failover Clustering Tools
- Group Policy Management Tools (GPMC, GPEditor)
- Network Load Balancing Tools
- SMTP Server Tools
- Storage Manager for SANs Tools
- Windows System Resource Manager Tools
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The following tools listed below are fully supported for managing Windows Server 2003 servers as well:
- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Tools
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Tools
- Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Tools
- DHCP Server Tools
- DNS Server Tools
- Group Policy Management Tools
- Network Load Balancing Tools
- Terminal Services Tools
- Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Services Tools
The following Windows Server 2008 Administrative Tools are NOT available through RSAT:
- Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) Tools
- Fax Service Manager
- Network Policy and Access Services (NPS) Tools (has no remote connectivity functionality)
- Server Manager (has no remote connectivity functionality - top feature request #1 - Server Manager product team is looking how to get this done in next release)
- iSNS (Internet Storage Name Service)
- Storage Explorer
- Windows Media Services (available through separate addon for x86 and x64)
- WINS (Windows Internet Name Service)
- Windows Server Backup
- Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Tools
- IIS 7 Manager (available through separate addon for x86 and x64)
- Hyper-V Tools (available through separate addon for x86 and x64 - More information: Q949758)
NOTE: You might be missing all Terminal Services tabs from the RSAT Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC).
For instructions on how to work around this problem, have a look at "Getting the Terminal Services Tabs to Appear in AD Users and Computers" - x86 and x64 files here.
Related Reading:
Remote Server Administrator Tools (RSAT) for Vista SP1 Directory Services Team blog: RSAT and ADUC: Getting the Terminal Services Tabs to Appear in AD Users and Computers Windows Media Services 2008 & "Streaming Media Services" Server Role for Windows Server 2008
Filed under: WindowsServer2008, WindowsVista, RSAT