Microsoft lets you plug in
the tools you need
We've all been waiting for Microsoft to release Windows NT 5.0, with all its
new features and tools. With the new release, NT's management tools will see
some welcome changes. One new tool that's already making news is the Microsoft
Management Console (MMC). The MMC provides a new plug-in framework and
Explorer-like interface for managing tools. Most of NT 5.0's management tools
will plug into the MMC. So imagine how surprised I was after I downloaded
Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 to discover that this latest version of
Microsoft's Web server uses the MMC as its management interface.
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