Introduction to MMC

Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is an extensible user interface that lets you create and host applications that manage Microsoft Windows-based environments in a simple, consistent, and integrated management user interface and administration model.

The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) unifies and simplifies day-to-day system management tasks. It hosts tools and displays them as consoles. These tools, consisting of one or more applications, are built to contain modules called snap-ins. For more information about MMC snap-ins, see the Microsoft TechNet MMC Snap-in page available at https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/distrib/dsbm_mon_ibdl.mspx?mfr=true. Snap-ins can include additional extension snap-ins.

System administrators can use readily available MMC plug-ins as well as custom plug-ins to manage a DCS environment. A system administrator can use the MMC console to configure and manage a farm of application servers, deploy services and tasks, add or edit Task Factory filters, change Discovery-configured instances, and change the policy on each instance. Additionally, the console provides a graphical tool that allows the user to configure the connection string catalog for the data access layer, and assign pipelines of transparent processes to individual tasks.