RSAT in Server 2012R2 for RDS Session management

Trying to setup a 2012R2 server, to be able to remotely manage a number of Remote Destop Services servers, particularly to manage the individual sessions of RD users. Apparently this should be able to be done with the Server management tools within 2012R2,
but I cannot find this option anywhere.
Apparently the RSAT are supposed to be already installed, and available through add/remove features, but it does not appear anywhere I can find.
Can someone point me in the correct direction?
Thanks.

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Remote Server Administration Tools includes Windows PowerShell cmdlet modules that can be used to manage roles and features that are running on remote servers. Although Windows PowerShell remote management is enabled by default on Windows Server 2012 R2 and
Windows Server 2012, it is not enabled by default on Windows 8.1 or Windows 8. To run cmdlets that are part of Remote Server Administration Tools against a remote server, run Enable-PSRemoting in a Windows PowerShell session that has been opened with elevated
user rights (that is, Run as Administrator) on your Windows client computer after installing Remote Server Administration Tools.
Please check below article might help in your case.
Deploy Remote Server Administration Tools
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/hh831501.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

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Hi Ben,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
In your case, I can suggest you to check that the certificate must match the FQDN of the server. If you are creating SSL certificate then it must be signed by trusted authority and also the certificate must be stored under “local computer/personal store“.
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Hi,
As the log, MSGR2CZ.DLL and wwlib.dll were both of the Microsoft libraries,not the third-party libraries. Thus, we need to analysis what happened with the dump file. But, it is beyond what we can do in the forum. I recommend you open a ticket with Microsoft
engineer.
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Thanks for the assistance so fat, now I have all clients connecting, I need to tackle the certificate issues.
The UC SAN certificate is going to cost much more than the current certificate, currently that idea is on the back burner as the client does not wish to pay a few hundred extra.
To quickly sum things up:
AD DNS(internal DNS) override in place for remote.domain.com.au pointing it to the internal IP of the gateway/connection broker/RDWeb server.
Connecting Internally its working perfectly fine under all circumstances (I'm guessing this is because of Kerberos Auth)
When users connect externally via RDWeb they get a certificate missmatch as the cert is for remote.domain.com.au and the server is RDG1-TCC.domain.com.net
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Server 2012 R2 RDS- Only want the Session Host, Connection Broker and Licensing Server!

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Hi,
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