Okay.
So now that we've sort of learned how to get the AMC installed and some of its basic capabilities,
what I want to do is start digging into the features and functions of the AMC.
So, you know, AMC is really designed to be a GPO centric view of HD.
It really isn't a replacement for your existing ad management.
Tools like ad users have computers, but rather is designed to give you that kind of group policy view
into your Active Directory.
So it shows you basic ad structure, but it does not show computer or user accounts.
So you can't really see within an O you which computers or users are in there.
You have to drop back to something like add users or computers.
You can have a view of all the GPOs defined in a domain and their properties.
You can also see where those GPOs are linked and you can do some basic reporting and troubleshooting
around group policy objects.
So, you know.
The bottom line here is that EMC is not a replacement for your ad tools.
It's sort of complementary to those ad tools.
And you'll find yourself bopping back and forth between the two, as I do on a regular basis.
Now, let's kind of dig into the M.S. itself and look at all the parts and pieces to it.
So the first thing to note is, of course, the kind of unit of work is the domain.
And in this screenshot, I've got a single domain in my R to test portal DeForest and it's called our
to test scuttled.
And underneath that domain, it shows me the structure of that as well as where those GPOs are linked
and that it has this sort of special container.
That's if you were to bring up a user as a computer, you wouldn't see a container called group policy
objects.
But AMC sort of provides that view to you.
And it's essentially that container contains all of the GPOs that are defined in this particular domain.
So you can kind of at a glance get a list of those GPOs and even see properties on them.
And the properties, if I've selected a GPO either underneath the group policy objects container or
if I go up, let's say I wanted to look at the default domain policy.
I can selected in the group policy objects container or I can selected in the default domain policy.
I'm sorry.
In the in the domain container, I could select the link.
And it would show me the same view, which is a set of essentially properties on the GPO, everything
from where it's linked and how it's security filtered to other information that I'll get to in a bit.
So let's go look at this in real time and see what this looks like on our test system.