Windows question- respond off list

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

Turns out that I was able to open the original compmgmt.msc in author
mode "mmc.exe /a compmgmt.msc" and add the snap-in and save.  The pain
in the ass was, I had to do this on an image of my system which had the
program with the new snap-in (Rational) installed and registered.  Then
the mmc.exe sees cccredmgr.msc as a valid snap-in that can be added.  I
originally tried to add the snap-in on a clean base image that I just
copied the new snap-in to.  Didn't work. 
 
Yet another pain in the ass in windows that is not scriptable, requires
a mouse, requires the registry, no one had ever done before, I had to
figure out myself, not documented, took way longer to do than it should
have.  Now the Rational users can live without fear of a missing icon
that they probably didn't even know was there.  By the way, there are at
least two other ways to do the same thing, but I must make my installer
as similar to the original as possible.  OK, somebody burn out my eyes
with a hot poker.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: sirsky [mailto:sirsky at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 4:31 PM
>To: Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
>Subject: Re: Windows question- respond off list
>
>
>What you want to do here, is to create a *new* MMC, and add the
>snap-ins as needed to replicate the 'compmgmt.msc' console, and add
>your .msc to it.  I believe the default ones that come with Windows
>(such as compmgmt.msc) are read-only, you can't add new snap-ins to
>them.  But you can build new ones, that are identical, and make
>additions to that.
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>-Lucas
>
>On 5/16/05, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 
><brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
>> God I hate doing this, but it's for my job.  I need to add a 
>.msc file
>> to the standard Windows Management console, the mmc.  This 
>.msc file is
>> a part of a program I'm working with and it adds some monitoring
>> functionality to the standard mmc console.  I know how to make a new,
>> custom console and save it, etc.  What I need is the command, if one
>> exists, to add the .msc into the "compmgmt.msc" under the 
>"Services and
>> Applications" subheading, "services.msc".  If I have a 
>single command or
>> series of commands, I can add this to my install script.  The docs on
>> MMC.exe are a little light and non-existent AFAICT in what I
>> specifically want to do.
>> 
>> 
>> This is giving me a headache.