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RSAT - Cannot Enable Remote Server Administration Tools in Windows 7 SP1

Answered RSAT - Cannot Enable Remote Server Administration Tools in Windows 7 SP1

  • Friday, July 27, 2012 11:45 AM
     
     
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    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64bit
    RSAT-Win7SP1-KB958830-x64-RefreshPkg.msu
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    I am able to install the remote server admin tools without error in Windows 7.

    I then open Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features on or off.

    I scroll down to Remote Server Administration Tools, expand it, and check the boxes next to the features I want, and click OK.

    Windows says it is making the changes.   About 20 seconds later an error message pops up:  "An error occurred, not all the features were successfully changed"

    I click OK, it prompts me to reboot.   I reboot and nothing.   The tools I checked to be installed do not get installed.

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    I have uninstalled and re-installed RSAT a few times, and each time the same thing happens.   When I check Event Viewer, there are no messages other than one in the Setup log saying,  "Initiating changes to turn on update RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-RDS of package KB958830."

    So, why won't this install?

     

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  • Friday, July 27, 2012 1:54 PM
     
     
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    Hi,

    if you have an Anti Virus software installed, disable it and try again to turn on the features.

    Kind regards,

    Tim
    MCITP, MCTS
    http://directoryadmin.blogspot.com

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  • Saturday, July 28, 2012 3:03 AM
     
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    Thanks, but I was able to work around it by using DISM.   There were only a few of the components I wanted enabled, so I put the following in notepad and saved it as a .bat file, and ran it from the command prompt.   It was successful enabling Server Manager, but not Hyper-V or RDS.  Both of those errored out.

    dism.exe /online /quiet /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools
    dism.exe /online /quiet /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-HyperV
    dism.exe /online /quiet /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-RDS
    dism.exe /online /quiet /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools-ServerManager

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    So I then tried this.  Same as above, created a batch file and ran it.   This time, Hyper-V and RDS enabled successfully .   I rebooted the PC and now have the Admin Tools.

    dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-HyperV
    dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-RDS

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    MS actually has a good web page with the above commands (2nd set), if you are interested:
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449483(v=ws.10)