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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to create a custom management console to get quick access to all the tools you use on a regular basis in one console.
If you manage a large number of PCs or servers, you might want to consider creating your own custom Microsoft management console (MMC) so that you’ve got all the tools you need at your fingertips. The instructions below can be used in Windows 10 or Windows Server 2012 R2.
Add snap-ins to a management console (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
What’s important to note here is how Device Manager appears as a child object of Computer Management, and not Console Root. If you want to add another root object, in the right of Add or Remove Snap-ins, click the Parent snap-in dropdown menu and select Console Root from the list. If you have a lot of snap-ins or groups of snap-ins that you’d like to organize in a console, note that there’s also a snap-in called Folder that be added and used to organize snap-ins.
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A customized management console (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Further customization options allow you to restrict user access to the console and change the default icon:
Advanced customizations (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
In this article, I showed you how to create your own custom Microsoft management console (MMC) for convenient access to the tools you use every day.
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