List installed server roles on a Windows 2003 server

Question

In Windows 2008 and 2012 I can use WMI ( "Select * From Win32_ServerFeature" ) in an assembly to get the roles, role services and features. This doesn't work for Windows 2003.

Is there a way to get a list of the installed roles from Windows 2003?

Answer 1

I think you can find the information you need in sysoc.inf (the existing configuration file), located in %systemroot%\\inf . This is the file used by the optional component manager of Windows Server 2003 ( SYSOCMGR.EXE ) that you can find in the %systemroot%\\system32 folder. Also see the post here giving some information on SYSOCMGR.EXE and its core dll ( ocmanage.dll ).