- [Instructor] There is something that I've observed
about Microsoft products over the past couple of decades.
While they are constantly innovating and improving
both the user and administrator experience,
there is always consideration for tradition.
With all of the new management
and administration style tools,
the MMC style tools are still available for the most part.
Some of the legacy control panels have given way
to the new interface that was debuted in Windows version 8.
But for the most part, the administration tools
have remained largely unchanged.
Here in the server manager we still have a tools menu.
And in that list are the same tools
that we've become accustomed to using
for the past several years.
Whenever you use the server manager
to install a role or a feature,
you're prompted to add the administration tools
which includes PowerShell modules
as well as these GUI desktop experience tools.
And as we look through this list,
we see the tools for every role that we have installed.
This is a domain controller,
so all of the active directory tools are here.
This server is a DNS server, so it has the DNS tool.
It's also a certificate authority,
so the certification authority tool is readily available.
There's a role that's not installed, let's say DHCP.
And so that tool is not in the list.
If we were to go through the process of adding a role
using this wizard, as was done early on in the course,
we would be prompted to add that tool
as part of installing the role.
Working in PowerShell, it may not be as obvious.
If I go and look at the PowerShell process
for adding a role,
I can use the cmdlet Install Windows Feature.
And if I were to go ahead and specify
that I wanted to install DHCP and hit enter,
it would install just that role without any of the tools.
I actually have to remember to use the parameter
Include Management Tools as an option.
That parameter is required if I want to get
the PowerShell module or administrative tools necessary
to take care of that role.
Let's go back over to the server manager.
I'll close out of PowerShell.
And here in the server manager if I were to start
the process to add roles and features,
I can go through the initial process
just as we've seen before.
Yes, I want to install a role or a feature.
And I want to install it on this machine.
If I go right past the list of roles
to look at the list of features and scroll down
in this alphabetic list, you can see a category
called Remote Server Administration Tools.
It labels it as remote because the assumption is
the only reason you're here to add a tool
is because you need to manage a role
installed somewhere else.
However, this can be used to install the tools
for any feature or role,
whether it's installed on this machine or another.
And here you can see it broken down
by feature administration and role administration.
If I expand role administration,
I could install the DHCP server tool
on this domain controller so that it can be used
to manage DHCP whether it's installed on this box,
which is probably a bad idea to add DHCP
to your domain controller,
or on some other machine elsewhere in the network.
Any of these tools can be added by simply selecting them
and then finishing the install process.
Now we're not installing the actual role or feature,
it's just the tools to manage it,
so these installation processes usually don't take too long.
And now that that installation has succeeded,
I can close this box and under the tools menu,
I now have DHCP.
From here, I can choose to connect
to an authorized DHCP server in my domain.
There it is, I can select it and say okay.
And I can have full DHCP administration capabilities
from this administration tool right here on my server.
Now, it's never really been the best practice
to conduct all of your administrative functions
from the console of a server, any server.
That makes things complicated when you consider
that the check boxes to install these tools
don't exist on Windows workstations.
In the next segment, we're going to take a look
at how you can get the tools that are available
to do all of the same administration
from a machine that is not a Windows server,
from a Windows workstation,
maybe the administrative workstation in your office.