hi florian, i appreciate your response, this is great info and will work a treat! just one further question. any easy way to determine the guid of an mmc snap-in? daniel. On 13/10/2008, Florian Frommherz <florian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ > ************************ > *********************** 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/ ************************