Reviewing the Windows 8 Snap-Ins

When you work with the MMC interface, what you’re really doing is editing a Microsoft Common Console Document, an .msc file that stores one or more snap-ins, the console view, and the taskpad view used by each snap-in branch. You learn how to create custom MSC files in this chapter, but you should know that Windows 8 comes with a large number of predefined MSC snap-ins, and we’ve summarized them in Table 23.2.

Table 23.2. The Default Windows 8 Snap-Ins

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