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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Administering Win2003 from XP Without RDP

I wanted administer Windows 2003 systems from Windows XP with out using remote desktop because it is in remote administration mode and didn't want to tie up rdp sessions. I tried just copying dsa.msc from a Windows 2003 machine to my XP workstation but that failed miserably. The ticket I was looking for was the Windows 2003 Administration Pack.

Download and install to get all the Administrative Tools usually only available on windows 2003 machines such as:

Active Directory Domains and Trusts
Active Directory Management
Active Directory Sites and Services
Active Directory Users and Computers
Authorization Manager
Cluster Administrator

No more need to use remote desktop just to administer AD.

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