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Microsoft Management Console
Hi Shawn. Somebody told me today that Microsoft Management Console was something cool that I should look at. So I looked at it. It appears you launch it by opening a Command Prompt (I suppose it should be elevated but I didn't use one) and entering MMC. I am thinking that's equivalent to opening a Run box & entering MMC, or doing a Search for MMC & executing it.) So how come it isn't accessible through the GUI, let's say from something in Start Menu -> All Programs -> System Tools, for example? I know I could pin it there, but how come Microsoft didn't put something there as part of the standard configuration? (Or in maybe Administrative Tools or . . . nothing else jumps out at me.)
In any case, I opened the thing & looked around. I read about 2/3 of the built-in help. I looked at the list of available snap-ins.
And I was bewildered. What is this thing for? Most of the snap-ins appear to be for things I can get at otherwise from items at some level of the Start Menu.
So I came to the Forums here, where I've been finding no end of answers to all sorts of questions & I find . . . a handful of Tutorials, all written by you, explaining how to do tasks whose usefulness I don't totally grasp. And none of them has any follow-on posts. Which makes me suspect I am not alone in wondering what is this thing for?
So I'm requesting a Tutorial that puts forward possible scenarios in which someone might find MMC useful. In the end, maybe I won't find it useful. But at this point I can't say with certainty it would or would not add to my experience, effectiveness, efficiency, something. If you do write a Tutorial such as I'm requesting, please subscribe me to it so I get notified if & when you post it.
Thanks.
Last edited by WildWilly; 19 Jun 2012 at 04:14.