- [Instructor] The Windows Admin Center
is a flexible tool for remotely managing Windows Servers.
But it doesn't yet have add-ins for administering
every Windows Server role and feature.
PowerShell can be used to perform just about any management
and administration task, locally or remotely.
But it lacks reporting tools
and despite the fact that PowerShell is over 20 years old,
there are still quite a few administrators
that have not taken the time to learn how to use it.
The MMC style administrative tools
that can be added to a Windows Server
by simply checking boxes in the Server Manager
are not available by just loading a screen
and checking boxes on a Workstation.
They are available,
but they have to be downloaded from Microsoft.
There are only a couple of requirements
for these Remote Server Administration Tools,
as we look at downloading them here.
The first is that you have to be running Professional
or Enterprise editions
of the Windows Workstation operating system.
That shouldn't be too big of a concern,
because a workplace with servers to manage
is likely to be using an Active Directory domain
and Professional and Enterprise editions
of Windows Workstation platforms
are required to join those domains.
The second requirement is that you're running a version
of Windows on your Workstation
that is similar to the version of your Windows Server.
Okay, that's not really a requirement,
so much as a strong suggestion,
but take a look at the search results for downloading RSAT,
for Remote Server Administration Tools.
The most popular result,
the one that shows up at the top of the list,
is RSAT for Windows 10.
The next result in this search was RSAT for Windows 7.
You need to install the Remote Server Administration Tools
that were written for your Workstation operating system.
That can become a concern if you've been moving forward
with your Workstations and not your servers,
or the other way around.
You can see here in the description
of the Server Tools for Windows 7
that it's designed to administer servers
running Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003.
While the Administration Tools
that are available to install on Windows 10
are going to be designed for Windows Server 2016,
2019, and the semi-annual releases
that came out in between and since.
I'm going to go ahead and select the link
to the page with information
about Server Administration Tools for Windows 10.
And as I scroll down a little bit
I can choose my language, that's an easy one.
Once I click Download I get a list of options.
Not only do I have to choose the download for Windows 10,
I should be selecting the one that is specific to my edition
or my update version of Windows 10.
Well, I'm running a 64-bit version
that has the 1803 updates.
So this is the edition of the Remote Server
Administration Tools that I'm looking for.
It's a Windows Workstation running 1803 update
and the 64-bit version of the operating system.
Now I can go ahead and click Next.
And here I am downloading this file.
I'm going to save it to the Desktop
just to make it easy to find for the installation
and then I'll delete it when I'm done.
The file is not that large.
It should download relatively quickly.
It looks like it is done, running the security scan now.
All right, now that that's done
I'm going to go ahead and close the browser
and there's the download.
Let me go ahead and run it.
Now you'll notice that this file
is installing as a Windows Update.
That is the type of file that we downloaded,
and so it uses the Update Standalone Installer
to add this to our machine.
So I'm going to go ahead and say Yes.
And once this adds itself to the Windows Update cache
we're going to get the Download and Install Updates prompt.
Accept the license and it will go ahead
and install this as an Update file.
Once you've installed you'll find
that you have a new program icon on the Start menu.
We have the Windows Admin Center,
which we've looked at before,
but if we scroll down a little bit
near the bottom of the list
we now have Windows Administrative Tools.
And in this list we have everything that could be added
to the Tools menu of the Server Manager
readily available for us right here on our Workstation.
Between PowerShell with remoting,
the Windows Admin Center, and now RSAT,
the only reason you should ever have to enter
the server room is to work on hardware
or maybe just to bask in the glow of the blinking lights.