As I was working on automating a few things for Nano Server, I thought it would be interesting to compare the cmdlets available in Nano Server versus what’s available in RSAT as I’ve stumbled on a few things that were missing. Here’s what the summary by module look like:

Module Name Nano Count RSAT Count ActiveDirectory 0 147 AppBackgroundTask 0 9 AppLocker 0 5 Appx 14 14 AssignedAccess 0 3 BestPractices 0 4 BitLocker 13 13 BitsTransfer 0 8 BranchCache 0 32 CimCmdlets 26 26 ClusterAwareUpdating 0 17 Containers 21 0 Defender 11 11 DFSN 0 23 DFSR 0 45 DhcpServer 0 121 DirectAccessClientComponents 0 11 Dism 43 43 DnsClient 9 17 DnsServer 0 130 EventTracingManagement 14 14 FailoverClusters 0 88 GroupPolicy 0 29 HgsClient 0 12 Hyper-V 215 399 International 0 18 IpamServer 0 75 iSCSI 0 13 IscsiTarget 0 28 ISE 0 3 Kds 0 6 Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive 0 2 Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics 0 5 Microsoft.PowerShell.Host 0 2 Microsoft.PowerShell.Management 86 86 Microsoft.PowerShell.ODataUtils 0 1 Microsoft.PowerShell.Security 13 13 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility 106 106 Microsoft.WSMan.Management 13 13 MMAgent 0 5 MsDtc 0 41 NetAdapter 68 68 NetConnection 0 2 NetEventPacketCapture 27 27 NetLbfo 0 13 NetNat 0 13 NetQos 0 4 NetSecurity 85 85 NetSwitchTeam 0 7 NetTCPIP 36 36 NetWNV 0 19 NetworkConnectivityStatus 0 4 NetworkController 0 160 NetworkLoadBalancingClusters 0 35 NetworkSwitchManager 0 19 NetworkTransition 0 34 NFS 0 42 Nps 0 7 PackageManagement 0 20 PcsvDevice 9 9 Pester 0 20 PKI 0 17 PnpDevice 4 4 PowerShellGet 0 15 PrintManagement 0 22 PSDesiredStateConfiguration 0 28 PSDiagnostics 0 10 PSReadline 0 6 PSScheduledJob 0 16 PSWorkflow 0 3 PSWorkflowUtility 0 1 RemoteAccess 0 122 RemoteDesktop 0 78 ScheduledTasks 0 19 SecureBoot 0 5 ServerManager 0 7 ServerManagerTasks 0 11 ShieldedVMDataFile 0 3 ShieldedVMTemplate 0 1 SmbShare 70 70 SmbWitness 5 5 StartLayout 0 3 Storage 147 147 StorageQoS 6 6 StorageReplica 0 14 TLS 0 7 TroubleshootingPack 0 2 TrustedPlatformModule 0 11 UpdateServices 0 16 VpnClient 0 19 Wdac 0 12 WindowsDeveloperLicense 0 3 WindowsErrorReporting 0 3 WindowsSearch 0 2 WindowsUpdate 0 1 Grand Total 1041 2951

If you want to look at the detailed comparison, here’s a link to the Excel spreadsheet:

Cmdlet_Comparison