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MMC Snapin Creation There are 2 main versions of MMC available on Windows, MMC 2.0 (Windows 2000 and XP) and MMC 3.0 (Windows Server 2003). I'll mainly explain how to develop a Snap-in with MMC 3.0. You can upgrade MMC 2.0 to MMC 3.0 using this install supplied by Microsoft MMC 2.0 snapin: Download the Platform SDK, Windows® Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK Web Install, from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0baf2b35-c656-4969-ace8-e4c0c0716adb&DisplayLang=en Build an example from the Platform SDK install: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Samples\SysMgmt\MMC\mmc2.0\simple>nmake MMC 3.0 snapin: How to Develop and MMC 3.0 Snap-in (msdn) How to create a Snap-in using MMC 3.0 (msdn) MMC Snap-ins for MMC 3.0 can be developed with the Windows SDK , for information on the snapin classes see msdn Management Console There is also an opensource .NET library at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmclibrary The MMC 3.0 application installation is at http://www.m...