Updated Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 10 Released

For system administrators who work within the Windows ecosystem one of their favorite tools is the Remote Server Administration Tools, aka RSAT for short, that allow them to remotely manage and control their Windows Servers.

Last month Microsoft updated RSAT to version 1.2 and it is available at the Microsoft Download Center in packages for x64 (92.3MB) and x86 (69.5MB).

The downloads includes the following tools for Windows 10 and only works on full versions of Professional, Enterprise, and Education:

Microsoft provides the following tips for the install and setup of RSAT:

"Remove all older versions of Administration Tools Pack or Remote Server Administration Tools—including older prerelease versions, and releases of the tools for different languages or locales—from the computer before you install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10. Only one copy at a time of Remote Server Administration Tools can be installed on a computer. If you have upgraded to Windows 10 from an older release of Windows, you will need to install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 on the computer; no earlier releases of Remote Server Administration Tools are still installed on a computer that you have upgraded to Windows 10."

Once you have downloaded and installed the RSAT package for your Windows 10 system all of the tools in the software are enabled by default. Follow these steps to disable those tools you will not be using on your network:

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