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Session 20Windows 7 Professional

Administrative Tasks

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Overview

• Introduction to MMC• Under the Hood With MMC• Task Scheduler• Cron Scheduler in Linux

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Session 20Windows 7 Professional

Microsoft Management Console

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Microsoft Management Console

• Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is a common presentation service for management applications

• Introduced with Windows 2000 • Provides a common host environment for snap-ins,

provided by Microsoft and third party software vendors • Snap-ins provide the actual management behavior • MMC itself does not provide any management

functionality • It is just for seamless integration between snap-ins

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Microsoft Management Console

• Administrators and other users can create custom management tools from snap-ins, created by various vendors.

• Administrators can then save the tools they have created for later use, or for sharing with other administrators and users

• Most of Microsoft's administration tools are implemented as MMC snap-ins

• A snap-in combined with MMC is called a console, which users can launch using this syntax: mmc filename.msc

• For example: mmc diskmgmt.msc

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MMC - Disguised

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• Click Start then enter Control Panel, then System and Security, then Administrative Tools

MMC - Disguised

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• Notice all the tools!

MMC - Disguised

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• Right click on one & look at the Properties

• Notice the .msc file! What is really happening?

MMC - Exposed

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• Click Start then enter run

• Type mmc then enter OK

MMC - Exposed

• You get this Console Root

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MMC - Exposed• Open the File menu and click the

Add/Remove Snap-In command

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MMC - Exposed• Click Add to open dialog box and add

some snap-ins, then click OK

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MMC - Exposed• Now save the console to your desktop

with the Save As command

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MMC - Exposed• I now have my own personalized console!

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Lab A: Operating in a Domain

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Task Scheduler

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Lab A: Operating in a Domain

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Session 20UNIX

Scheduling Tasks

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Cron

• This isn’t pretty!!!

• You enter crontab –e then something like:

# m h dom mon dow command

15,30,45 9-17 * * * /home/papacosta/bin/zenGong

0 9,10,11,13-17 * * * /home/papacosta/bin/hourlyChime

0 12 * * * /home/papacosta/bin/noonsiren

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Important URLS• Microsoft Management Console Overview - A very

good overview from the MS Technet Library. It has lots of diagrams and examples

• Microsoft Management Console 3.0 - Updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

• MMC Technology Overview - this is more from a developers point-of-view

• Microsoft Management Console 3.0 for Windows XP - you can use the modern MMC 3.0 in Windows XP with this download

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Homework

Review the SlidesReview Lesson 7 In The Text

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Happy Thanksgiving

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