I finally found some time today to upgrade my primary work machine to Windows 7 RTM (Yeah). Since I do a lot of system administration one of the first things I put on there was my Powershell tools and RSAT. I went and got the RSAT tools from the MS website, I install it, go into “turn on/off Windows features” menu and click the to level check for RemoteAdministrationTools, in the hope that it would select all the admin tools, but no!
I have to check each and everyone..

Then I remembered a while back on the Minasi forum, it was discussed if there was an easier way, and Mark said: “There is probably a one line DISM command for that”, so I took a look at DISM, and found that to my (albeit limited) knowledge there was no way to install all the tools at once.

So I thought to myself, well I guess I have to do it in powershell then, so I started out writing a small script to enable all the admin tools one by one.

Then suddenly Marks words sprung to mind again, “there is probably a DISM oneliner to do this), so I rewrote my little script to a oneliner, here is what I ended up with:
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#Enable RSAT features
dism /online /get-features | Select-String -Pattern remote* | %{$Exec = “dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools /featurename:” + ($_).ToString().Replace(‘Feature Name : ‘,''); Invoke-expression $Exec}
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Dism requires admin permissions, so you need to run this elevated.

Here is what it does:
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dism /online /get-features
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Uses DISM to retrieve a list of available “features”
That list is then piped into a Select-string statement, that selects all that contain the string “Remote*”, which luckily all the admin tools does :)

Each of the selected strings are then “piped along the pipeline” in the next command, which is a bit more complicated:

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%{$Exec = “dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools /featurename:” + ($_).ToString().Replace(‘Feature Name : ‘,''); Invoke-expression $Exec}
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% = foreach, so foreach string the Select-String returns, I start to build the $exec variable, the first part of the variable is just text “dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools /featurename:" this next part is where the feature name is extracted: ($_).ToString().Replace(‘Feature Name : ‘,''). What it does is it converts the output from Select_String ($_) into a string, on that string it replaces “‘Feature Name : “, with nothing “”, so that the $exec variable will end up containing the the initial string, plus the name of the “current” “feature” in the pipeline, giving a full command that can be executed, something like this dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-AD. Then it is “executed” by the Invoke-expression $exec.

So since what I do is just creating a regular commandline expression and executing it, there is not reason why I cannot just export the result to a batch file, which I can edit and run.
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#Output DISM RSAT commands to file
dism /online /get-features | Select-String -Pattern remote* | %{$Exec = “dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools /featurename:” + ($_).ToString().Replace(‘Feature Name : ‘,'');Out-File -InputObject $Exec -FilePath c:\test.bat}
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Hope this was usefull