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Installing and enabling RSAT on Vista

Wednesday, March 26 2008 - tools

So now that the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) are available,  I went to install them on one of my Vista machines, and here are the steps I took to enable them for use.

After applying the update, I noticed that the new tools did not appear in my Administrative Tools folder, but the help file was there only.  I tried to add the snap in via the MMC, but they did not appear as if they were registered in the system.

Fortunately I did remember reading that in the beta, you had to enable the Windows Feature for them to be available.

So just a simple jaunt into Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off was all it took to make them available.

Now all the of the installed RSAT tools are available for use!