Installing RSAT Tools

The Remote Server Admin Tools (aka RSAT) is a set of management tools you use to manage individual Windows Features. The RSAT tools are fundamental to administering the roles and features you can install on Windows Server. The Windows Server DNS Server feature, for example, comes with both an MMC console and a module that you use to manage the DNS Server on a given host. A nice thing about the commands in the ServerManager module – everything is a feature, meaning you do not know whether the tools manage a Windows Feature or a Windows Role.

Each feature in Windows Server can optionally have management tools, and most do. These tools can include PowerShell cmdlets, functions, aliases, GUI Microsoft Management Console (MMC) files, and Win32 console applications. The DNS Server's RSAT tools include a PowerShell module, an MMC console as well as the command line tool dnscmd.exe. While you probably do not need the console applications since you can use the...