The World According to Mitch

I have been an advocate of using Server Core since… well, essentially since Microsoft introduced it in Windows Server 2008. I have also been a huge proponent of the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) that can be installed in the client OS to remotely manage the non-GUI servers without having to become a PowerShell or CLI guru.

While I have written articles previously about installing individual RSAT tools, sometimes I just want to grab them all and install them in one fell swoop, rather than doing them one by one. To do this is pretty simple:

Open PowerShell as an Administrator.

Type the following: Get-WindowsCapability –Name RSAT* –Online | Add-WindowsCapability –Online

It will take a while… depending on the speed of your computer it may take a very long while! However that’s all you need to do. Let that run, and all of the RSAT tools will be installed.