Howdie! > at my organisation we have in place snap-in restriction via a policy > with this setting: user config\windows components\microsoft management > console\restrict users to the explicitly permitted list of snap-ins = > enabled. > > and then in the permitted snap-ins list various snap-ins are enabled. > my problem is this list seems to be the default windows snap-ins. what > i would like to do is enable the sms admin console snap-in. is there > someway i can add it to the permissable list? You need to write a custom ADM(X) template for this. What the predefined templates do is go to [HKCU]\Software\Policies\Microsoft\MMC\{MMC snapin GUID} and set the "Restrict_Run" key to either 0 (enabled) or 1 (disabled). All you need to know is the GUID of the SMS console and edit the predefined MMCSnapin.ADMX, better yet create a custom ADMX and insert a new section just like you see it built-in for the other mmc snap-ins. Cheers, Florian *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************