Retiring Oclist.exe

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For those of you that used Server Core in Windows Server 2008 you may be familiar with the Oclist.exe tool. This tool was included in Server Core to provide a way to obtain a list of roles and features on Server Core and their installation state. In Windows Server 2008 R2 a new tool, Dism.exe, was introduced for adding/removing roles and features and included the capability to provide the list of roles and features as well as installation state by running:

Dism /online /get-features /format:table

In the Server Core documentation we changed to using Dism.exe for Windows Server 2008 R2. Because Dism.exe is an integrated command line tool for all tasks related to optional roles and features and provides additional formating options for its output, in the next release we are planning to remove Oclist.exe from Server Core.

If there are any concerns with this change, please post a comment or email srvcfdbk@microsoft.com.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2011
    What about OCsetup.exe command? is it still available on Server Core R2?

  • Anonymous
    February 13, 2012
    Yes, OCsetup.exe is still available on Server Core 2008 R2.

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2014
    Oclist is still available on Windows Server Core 2008 R2 but NOT on Windows Server Core 2012 /2012 R2. Ocsetup is deprecated. Microsoft recommends using DISM.exe to add/remove roles & features in Windows 2012 (R2) Server.

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  • Anonymous
    August 05, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2015
    To be fair the new "standard" is Powershell, I'm not aware of many Powershell commands deprecated from 2008 to 2012, only extra ones added. But yeah, it has been a nightmare up to now.

    Hopefully more and more tools get a Powershell front end that will be stable, even if they have to make work for some devs by rewriting the core every cycle.

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2015
    To mslover: yeah but Powershell came from WMI which came from VBScript, etc. etc.

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2015
    The point which MooB and Curmudge0n21 were making and which mslover totally missed is that there is always a new NEW STANDARD.

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    April 13, 2015
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  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2016
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