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Microsoft Management Console
| Windows Management Console running in Windows 10, with Device Manager snap-in loaded
| Developer(s) | Microsoft
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Operating system | Microsoft Windows
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Type | System configuration application
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License | Proprietary
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Snap-ins listed in the management console Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is a component of Microsoft Windows that provides
system administrators and advanced users an interface for configuring and monitoring the system. It was first introduced in 1998 with the Option Pack for Windows NT 4.0 and later came pre-bundled with Windows 2000 and its successors. Snap-ins and
consoles[edit]The management console can host Component Object Model components called snap-ins. Most of Microsoft's administration tools are implemented as
MMC snap-ins. Third parties can also implement their own snap-ins using the MMC's application programming interfaces published on the Microsoft Developer Network's web site. Snap-ins are registered in the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT]\{CLSID} and [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MMC\Snapins]
registry keys. A snap-in combined with MMC is called a management saved console,[1] which is a file with .msc extension and can be launched using this syntax: mmc path \ filename.msc [/a] [/64] [/32]. Common
snap-ins[edit]The most prolific MMC component, Computer Management, appears in the "Administrative Tools" folder in the Control Panel, under "System and Security" in
Category View. Computer Management actually consists of a collection of MMC snap-ins, including the Device Manager, Disk Defragmenter, Internet Information
Services (if installed), Disk Management, Event Viewer, Local Users and Groups (except in the home editions of Windows), Shared Folders, Services snap-in, for managing
Windows services, Certificates and other tools. Computer Management can also be pointed at another Windows machine altogether, allowing for monitoring and configuration of other computers on the local network that the user has access to. Other MMC snap-ins in common use include: - Microsoft Exchange Server (up to version 2010)
- Active Directory Users and Computers, Domains and Trusts, and Sites and Services
- Group Policy Management, including the Local Security Policy snap-in included on all Windows 2000 and later systems (Home editions of
Microsoft Windows disable this snap-in)
- Performance snap-in, for monitoring system performance and metrics
Version history[edit]- MMC 1.0, shipped with Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack.
- MMC 1.1, shipped with
SQL Server 7.0 and Systems Management Server 2.0, and also made available as a download for Windows 9x and
Windows NT. New features:[2]
- Snap-in taskpads
- Wizard-style property sheets
- Ability to load extensions to a snap-in at run-time
- HTML Help support
- MMC 1.2, shipped with Windows 2000. New
features:[3]
- Support for Windows Installer and Group Policy
- Filtered views
- Exporting list views to a text file
- Persistence of user-set column
layouts (i.e. widths, ordering, visibility and sorting of lists)
- MMC 2.0, shipped with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. New features:
- Operating system-defined visual styles
- Automation object model, allowing the capabilities of an MMC snap-in to be used
programmatically from outside MMC itself (e.g. from a script)
- 64-bit snap-ins
- Console Taskpads
- View Extensions
- Multilanguage User Interface help files
- MMC 3.0, shipped with Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows XP
SP3[4] and subsequent versions of Windows. Also downloadable for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. New features:[5]
- A new "Actions pane", displayed on the right-hand side of the MMC user interface that displays available
actions for currently-selected node
- Support for developing snap-ins with the .NET Framework, including Windows Forms
- Reduced amount of code required to create a snap-in
- Improved debugging capabilities
- Asynchronous user interface model (MMC 3.0 snap-ins only)
- True
Color Icon Support (Windows Vista Only)
- New Add/Remove Snap-in UI
- DEP is always enforced. All snap-ins must be
DEP-aware.[6]
See
also[edit]- List of Microsoft Windows components
- Microsoft Windows
- Windows PowerShell
References[edit]- ^ Mitch Tulloch. Windows Server 2003 in a Nutshell. O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (August 2003). p.
288. ISBN 978-0596004040.
- ^
"What's New in MMC Version 1.1". Archived from the original on March 11, 2007. Retrieved
February 13,
2006.[dead link]
- ^ "Microsoft API
and reference catalog". Microsoft Developer Network. 2016. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved February 25,
2019.
- ^ Download details: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview
Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^
"What's New in MMC 3.0". MSDN. Microsoft.
- ^ "The Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Developer Story: Application Compatibility Cookbook". MSDN. Microsoft. Archived from
the original on 2008-04-21. Retrieved
2007-06-11.
External
links[edit]- Microsoft Management Console documentation
Which user can manage mandatory profiles in Windows 7?
A mandatory user profile is a type of profile that administrators can use to specify settings for users. Only system administrators can make changes to mandatory user profiles. Changes made by users to desktop settings are lost when the user logs off.
Which of the following utility allows you to create local users and groups?
Account Management Tools. Local Users and Groups MMC Snap-In. The Local Users and Groups MMC snap-in allows you to create and manage both user accounts and groups. The fastest way to access this snap-in is through the Computer Management Administrative Tool.
What are the built in users?
Built-in Account is a type of user account that is created during installation. All computers running Windows NT or Windows 2000 have two built-in user accounts: The Administrator account: Used to provide administrative access to all features of the operating system.
Which user can manage mandatory profiles in Windows 10?
Which users are able to manage mandatory profiles on Windows 10 computers? : Chapter 9, page 401: "Only members of the administrators group can manage mandatory profiles."
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