1. Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems Session 20 Windows 7 Professional Administrative Tasks 1

2. Overview Introduction to MMC Under the Hood With MMC Task Scheduler Cron Scheduler in Linux Fall 2011 2 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems

3. Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems Session 20 Windows 7 Professional Microsoft Management Console 3

4. 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 Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 4

5. 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 Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 5

6. MMC - Disguised Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 6 Click Start then enter Control Panel, then System and Security, then Administrative Tools

7. MMC - Disguised Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 7 Notice all the tools!

8. MMC - Disguised Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 8 Right click on one & look at the Properties Notice the.msc file! What is really happening?

9. MMC - Exposed Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 9 Click Start then enter run Type mmc then enter OK

10. MMC - Exposed You get this Console Root Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 10

11. MMC - Exposed Open the File menu and click the Add/Remove Snap-In command Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 11

12. MMC - Exposed Click Add to open dialog box and add some snap-ins, then click OK Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 12

13. MMC - Exposed Now save the console to your desktop with the Save As command Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 13

14. MMC - Exposed I now have my own personalized console! Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 14

15. Lab A: Operating in a Domain Fall 2011 15 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems

16. Task Scheduler Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 16

17. Lab A: Operating in a Domain Fall 2011 17 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems

18. Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems Session 20 UNIX Scheduling Tasks 18

19. 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 Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 19

20. Important URLS Microsoft Management Console Overview - A very good overview from the MS Technet Library. It has lots of diagrams and examplesMicrosoft Management Console Overview Microsoft Management Console 3.0 - Updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008Microsoft Management Console 3.0 MMC Technology Overview - this is more from a developers point-of-viewMMC Technology Overview Microsoft Management Console 3.0 for Windows XP - you can use the modern MMC 3.0 in Windows XP with this downloadMicrosoft Management Console 3.0 for Windows XP Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 20

21. Homework Review the Slides Review Lesson 7 In The Text Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 21

22. Happy Thanksgiving Fall 2011 Nassau Community College ITE153 – Operating Systems 22