I have sometimes situations where I need to rollout a similar setup of Windows Features from a live system to a development system. Therefore the Powershell cmdlt Install-WindowsFeature is very useable. Also in our case the sxs folder is needed. Here my example how we use it: Install-WindowsFeature -ConfigurationFilePath C:\temp\DeploymentConfigTemplate.xml -Source C:\PSEMEAIT\sxs\