Install all RSAT tools via PowerShell

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You can use the following one line of PowerShell to easily install all of the available Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) in one go. I end up running this after every Windows feature update., Saves wasting time with a GUI.

Open an admin PowerShell prompt

Get-WindowsCapability -Name RSAT* -Online | Add-WindowsCapability -Online

Individuals Tools

If instead you only want to install a single tool or a small number. This command will give you a list of all of the available RSAT tools

Get-WindowsCapability -Name RSAT* -Online

You can then install the individual tool using

Add-WindowsCapability –online –Name “<tool name>”

i.e

Add-WindowsCapability –online –Name “Rsat.ActiveDirectory.DS-LDS.Tools~~~~0.0.1.0”

Checking the install status

This command will show which tools (if any) you currently have installed

Present = Installed

Not Present = Not installed

Get-WindowsCapability -Name RSAT* -Online | Select-Object -Property DisplayName, State

4 thoughts on “Install all RSAT tools via PowerShell”

  1. Minor issue with your command syntax.

    Take a look at the “-Online” after Add-WindowsCapability and compare it to the other “-Online”. One is a regular hyphen, the other is an em dash (long dash). When you try to paste it into PowerShell, the em dash doesn’t translate properly.

    Get-WindowsCapability -Name RSAT* -Online | Add-WindowsCapability –Online

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  2. Seen some people with issues. They cant get the windows updates because of the WSUS server.
    Everywhere on the internet they disable the update server with powershell:

    Set-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU” -Name “UseWUServer” -Value 0
    Restart-Service wuauserv

    BUT this doesn’t always works, also check the Cachesets:

    Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache

    Under this reg. are internal domain servers too.

    example for Powershell to disabled them so you can use the Windows Update servers again:

    Set-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache\CacheSet001\WindowsUpdate\AU” -Name “UseWUServer” -Value 0
    Restart-Service wuauserv

    Set-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache\CacheSet002\WindowsUpdate\AU” -Name “UseWUServer” -Value 0
    Restart-Service wuauserv

    etc.

    If that doesn’t work just delete(write them down) the servers there(instead of disableing) and try again.

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  3. It probably is pretty common to have two cache sets but PS can figure this out for you…

    Get-Item -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache\*” | foreach {
    $CashSet = $_.PSChildName
    Get-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache\$CashSet\WindowsUpdate\AU” -Name UseWUServer
    }

    # Set to 0 to disable Cache
    Get-Item -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache\*” | foreach {
    $CashSet = $_.PSChildName
    Set-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache\$CashSet\WindowsUpdate\AU” -Name UseWUServer -Value 0
    }

    Restart-Service -Name wuauserv -Force

    # Reset to 1 to enable Cache
    Get-Item -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache\*” | foreach {
    $CashSet = $_.PSChildName
    Set-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\GPCache\$CashSet\WindowsUpdate\AU” -Name UseWUServer -Value 1
    }

    Restart-Service -Name wuauserv -Force

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