WDS Mananger on windows 8

Apparently Microsoft did not include WDS manager with there server 2012 RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) once again…
to enable remote wds control place the fallowing script in a batchfile and run batchfile.bat wdsservername

copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\WdsMgmt.msc c:\windows\system32\WdsMgmt.msc
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\en-US\WdsMgmt.msc c:\windows\system32\en-US\WdsMgmt.msc
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\wdsmgmt.dll c:\windows\system32\wdsmgmt.dll
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\en-US\wdsmgmt.dll.mui c:\windows\system32\en-US\wdsmgmt.dll.mui
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\WdsImage.dll c:\windows\system32\WdsImage.dll
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\en-US\WdsImage.dll.mui c:\windows\system32\en-US\WdsImage.dll.mui
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\wdscsl.dll c:\windows\system32\wdscsl.dll
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\wdstptc.dll c:\windows\system32\wdstptc.dll
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\WdsTptMgmt.dll c:\windows\system32\WdsTptMgmt.dll
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\en-US\WdsTptMgmt.dll.mui c:\windows\system32\en-US\WdsTptMgmt.dll.mui
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\wdsmmc.dll c:\windows\system32\wdsmmc.dll
copy \\%1\c$\windows\system32\en-US\wdsmmc.dll.mui c:\windows\system32\en-US\wdsmmc.dll.mui
regsvr32 WdsMgmt.dll
regsvr32 WdsTptMgmt.dll
regsvr32 WdsMmc.dll

once you do its now possible to remotely manage wds servers in your network by typing WdsMgmt.msc in search.

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