Installing the standard graphical management tools for your Active Directory

Note

The RSAT are remote administration tools are for managing Windows operating systems.

The remote server administration tools allow to use all MMC consoles available for Microsoft Active Directory with a Samba-AD.

RSAT tools can only be installed on Professional Editions of Windows.

On Windows 7

  • From a Windows 7 workstation download the Remote Server Administration Tools alias RSAT for Windows 7.

  • Install the downloaded KB. The installation of the KB is very long (about 10 minutes). Once installed, go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs -> Enable or disable Windows features to use RSAT.

On Windows 10

Version prior to 1809

  • From a Windows 10 workstation download the Remote Server Administration Tools alias RSAT for Windows 10.

    Attention

    Here, a small peculiarity because you have to install the KB corresponding to your version of Windows10. To know it, run the command winver.

  • Install the downloaded KB. The installation of the KB is very long (about 10 minutes). Once the KB is installed, go to Start –> Control Panel –> Programs –> Enable or disable Windows features.

Version after 1809

The RSAT tools on Windows10 Pro 1809 are no longer installed in KB but with the Powershell command line as they have become optional features (Feature on Demand).

Get-WindowsCapability -Online | ? Name -like 'RSAT*'|Where
{$_.State -eq 'NotPresent'} |foreach {Add-WindowsCapability -online -name $_.Name}

  • To activate the RSAT tools, check the following features:

    • Remote Server Administration Tools -> Feature Administration Tools-> Group Policy Management Tools.

    • Remote Server Administration Tools -> Role Administration Tools-> AD DS and AD LDS Tools -> check all.

    • :me,uselection:Remote Server Administration Tools -> Role Administration Tools -> AD DS Tools -> Check all except Server Tools for NIS.

    • Remote Server Administration Tools -> Role Administration Tools -> DNS Server Tools.

    Attention

    If you have configured your Samba-AD server with the RFC2307 option, or you have upgraded from Samba3-NT4 to Samba-AD, then you have to manage the linux UID / GID of the users, so activate in addition the NIS options:

    • Remote Server Administration Tools -> Role Administration Tools -> AD DS and AD LDS Tools -> AD DS Tools -> Server Tools for NIS.

    Windows function panels

    Windows function panels

Accessing the RSAT console

The MMC consoles can be found in Control Panel -> System and Security -> Administrative Tools.