Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Using Adminpak.msi to Install a Specific Server Administration Tool

In Windows 2000 (and 2003!) you can install the MMC snapins on your computer by runing adminpak.msi. One question that I've seen, but never managed to work out was a simple way of adding one, but not ALL the snapins. It turns out that it's not all that difficult, according to KB article 314978 - How To Use Adminpak.msi to Install a Specific Server Administration Tool in Windows 2000.

The format is not overly friendly. For example, to install the DNS console, you'd type:

msiexec /i adminpak.msi ADDLOCAL=FeDNSConsole /qb

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