Installing Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) on Windows 7 SP1

Original author: MagicAndre1981
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RSAT - Remote Server Administration Tools for me personally have become indispensable since their release by Microsoft. After I came across the problem of the impossibility of installing them on Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 preinstalled - I had to clarify in Google, did Microsoft really not support them in this major update? The official answer is “wait for April.” Then I came across an article about integrating this useful toolkit - a translator's note.

This article is presented as a draft. Use it only for experimentation. There is no guarantee that everything that is written here will work for you.
When you try to install RSAT on Windows 7 SP1, you get an error:
"This update is not applicable to your computer"


Microsoft comments this as follows:
It's too early!

I found a way to get around this on the MS blog and write about it:

If you have x64 Windows, replace “x86” with “amd64” in the commands.
  1. unpack the RSAT x86fre_GRMRSAT_MSU.msu installer into the d: \ rsat directory
  2. Run the CAB unpacker:
    expand -f:* "D:\RSAT\Windows6.1-KB958830-x86.cab" "D:\RSAT\expand"

  3. Download Service Pack 1 for Windows 7
  4. Unpack it with the command:
    windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe /X:D:\Sp1
    to the D: \ Sp1 directory
  5. Unpack the CAB service pack:
    expand -f:* "D:\Sp1\windows6.1-KB976932-X86.cab" "D:\RSAT\sp1"

    to the D: \ RSAT \ sp1 directory.
  6. Install the RSAT components with the following commands one at a time (look at the end of the pkgmgr process in the TaskManager):
    pkgmgr /ip /m:"D:\RSAT\expand\microsoft-windows-remoteserveradministrationtools-package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7600.16385.mum"

    pkgmgr /ip /m:"D:\RSAT\expand\microsoft-windows-remoteserveradministrationtools-package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-us~6.1.7600.16385.mum"

    (replacing en-us with the language of our system - for Russian - ru-ru)
    pkgmgr /ip /m:"D:\RSAT\expand\microsoft-windows-remoteserveradministrationtools-package-minilp~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-us~6.1.7600.16385.mum"

    (replacing en-us with the language of our system - for Russian - ru-ru)
    pkgmgr /ip /m:"D:\RSAT\Sp1\microsoft-windows-remoteserveradministrationtools-package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7601.17514.mum"

  7. We reboot the system (if asked) and open the "Add Windows Components", after which we tick off the components we need

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