I suppose I could have expanded the title, but then it would cramp the page.

Today’s scenario. Co-worker running vista, installs the Remote Server Administration Tools package, pops into the Administrative Tools folder and cannot find the Group Policy Management Console.

The solution? The GPMC is disabled by default after installing RSAT. You need to visit Programs and Features in the Control Panel, and then click on the Turn Windows features on or off link to bring up what used to be called Windows Components. From that dialog, you can scroll down to find the Remote Server Administration Tools node and click the checkbox for each admin tool you need access to.

While you are in there, enable the telnet client. Been asked before where telnet disappeared to in Vista. It’s there, just not on by default.

For more information on the RSAT, visit KB 941314. It describes the tools and limitations of RSAT. Also, RSAT does not include the Hyper-V manager console. That can be downloaded with this link and more information is available in KB 952627.

Missed this one in the holiday shuffle and updates to the blog. Microsoft has created a package containing all of the iFilters you would need to read the following filetypes:

• .docx (Microsoft Office 2007 Word Document)
• .docm (Microsoft Office Word Macro-Enabled Document)
• .pptx (Microsoft Office 2007 PowerPoint Presentation)
• .xlsx (Microsoft Office 2007 Excel Worksheet)
• .xlsm (Microsoft Office Excel Macro-Enabled Worksheet)
• .xlsb (Microsoft Office Excel Binary Worksheet)
• .zip (WinZip File)
• .one (Microsoft Office OneNote Section)
• .vdx (Microsoft Office Visio Drawing)
• .vsd (Microsoft Office Visio Drawing)
• .vss (Microsoft Office Visio Stencil)
• .vst (Microsoft Office Visio Template)
• .vsx (Microsoft Office Visio Stencil)
• .vtx (Microsoft Office Visio Template)

for the following programs:

• Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Search Server 2008
• SharePoint Portal Server 2003
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Exchange Server 2007
• SQL Server 2005
• SQL Server 2008

Head over to the download page for installation details.