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Okay.

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So now that we've sort of learned how to get the AMC installed and some of its basic capabilities,

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what I want to do is start digging into the features and functions of the AMC.

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So, you know, AMC is really designed to be a GPO centric view of HD.

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It really isn't a replacement for your existing ad management.

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Tools like ad users have computers, but rather is designed to give you that kind of group policy view

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into your Active Directory.

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So it shows you basic ad structure, but it does not show computer or user accounts.

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So you can't really see within an O you which computers or users are in there.

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You have to drop back to something like add users or computers.

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You can have a view of all the GPOs defined in a domain and their properties.

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You can also see where those GPOs are linked and you can do some basic reporting and troubleshooting

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around group policy objects.

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So, you know.

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The bottom line here is that EMC is not a replacement for your ad tools.

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It's sort of complementary to those ad tools.

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And you'll find yourself bopping back and forth between the two, as I do on a regular basis.

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Now, let's kind of dig into the M.S. itself and look at all the parts and pieces to it.

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So the first thing to note is, of course, the kind of unit of work is the domain.

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And in this screenshot, I've got a single domain in my R to test portal DeForest and it's called our

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to test scuttled.

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And underneath that domain, it shows me the structure of that as well as where those GPOs are linked

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and that it has this sort of special container.

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That's if you were to bring up a user as a computer, you wouldn't see a container called group policy

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objects.

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But AMC sort of provides that view to you.

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And it's essentially that container contains all of the GPOs that are defined in this particular domain.

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So you can kind of at a glance get a list of those GPOs and even see properties on them.

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And the properties, if I've selected a GPO either underneath the group policy objects container or

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if I go up, let's say I wanted to look at the default domain policy.

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I can selected in the group policy objects container or I can selected in the default domain policy.

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I'm sorry.

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In the in the domain container, I could select the link.

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And it would show me the same view, which is a set of essentially properties on the GPO, everything

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from where it's linked and how it's security filtered to other information that I'll get to in a bit.

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So let's go look at this in real time and see what this looks like on our test system.