MMC & External Application
Hello,
I have been evaluating Remote Desktop Manager and like it so far. However, I am having a few issues that I wonder if it can be fixed as follows:
1) I'm trying to open an embedded mmc snap-in for managing many servers. When I add it as a 'Command Line' session with 'Embedded' selected the mmc snap-in will open outside of RDM. I tried playing around with the 'Embedded wait time' and set to 'Run as Administrator', but this doesn't seem to help. Also, I searched your forum here, but couldn't really find a solid answer.
2) I have an application that I've set to open 'Embedded' and it opens fine and I can see the contents of this first page. However, when I click on a different tab in the application to open a new view the page is blank. If I go back to the first tab that showed content when I first opened it the page becomes blank again. If I open the application as 'External' all the tabs in the application show fine.
3) I have a second application that I'm trying to open as 'Embedded', but when it opens it doesn't open as a tab in RDM. Instead it opens outside of RDM. I tried playing with all the settings, but nothing seems to work.
If you have any suggestions on how I might fix these issues I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks very much in advance and keep up the good work on this great application!
All Comments (23)
Hi,
Embedding an application is always a tricky. However for MMC it usually work fine. Could you export the .rdm file and I will take a look at it.
For the other application, could you give me more details and perhaps the name of those applications?
David Hervieux
Sure no problem, I exported it and attached here. As for the other applications, one is called Active Administrator (http://www.quest.com/active-administrator/) and the other is SpotLight on Active Directory (http://www.quest.com/spotlight-on-active-directory-pack/).
For Active Administrator, I have attached a screenshot showing what it looks like when I first open it to the Start Page. The second screenshot shows what happens when I click on one of the tabs in the application. The last screenshot shows the result of me going back to the Start Page.
As for SpotLight I'm not sure what details your looking for? I set it up the same way I did for Active Administrator. The only difference is that it opens externally and never returns to RDM as an 'embedded' tab.
Thanks for the help!
edited by HaVoCMeSS on 2/12/2013
Hi,
I don't see the exported file. You can send it by email to support at devolutions.net
David Hervieux
i am also looking to embed an mmc.
"C:\Program Files\Update Services\administrationsnapin\wsus.msc"
This is the WSUS msc for Windows Server Update Service. But it is opening in an external window. What am i doing wrong? :/
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ArrayOfConnection>
<Connection>
<Cmd>
<RunAsAdministrator>true</RunAsAdministrator>
</Cmd>
<CommandLine>C:\Program Files\Update Services\administrationsnapin\wsus.msc</CommandLine>
<ConnectionType>CommandLine</ConnectionType>
<Events />
<ID>88030650-c0e1-4df5-bd3a-d964ec925b29</ID>
<Image>......</Image>
<ImageMD5>1a59182ba52418ed625ba81154b2e14d</ImageMD5>
<MetaInformation />
<Name>WSUS Console</Name>
<OpenEmbedded>true</OpenEmbedded>
<Stamp>1c8deb5c-6f88-4636-b508-e1330c8d9f51</Stamp>
</Connection>
</ArrayOfConnection>
edited by Max on 2/28/2013
In general when embedding a "Run As Administrator" application RDM must also be "Run As Administrator" or the embedding will not succeed.
Now in this case it looks like the mmc console must also be running in 64-bit (not sure why this is the case but...). Try checking "Run in 64 Bits mode".
Does that work?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ArrayOfConnection>
<Connection>
<Cmd>
<Run64BitsMode>true</Run64BitsMode>
<RunAsAdministrator>true</RunAsAdministrator>
</Cmd>
<CommandLine>mmc.exe</CommandLine>
<ConnectionType>CommandLine</ConnectionType>
<ID>247c0121-33ed-4055-b875-a7171d9a0863</ID>
<Name>post14869</Name>
<OpenEmbedded>true</OpenEmbedded>
<Stamp>5fee0963-cec7-4ea9-b81b-9be3837c6e3e</Stamp>
</Connection>
</ArrayOfConnection>
Stéfane Lavergne
In general when embedding a "Run As Administrator" application RDM must also be "Run As Administrator" or the embedding will not succeed.
Now in this case it looks like the mmc console must also be running in 64-bit (not sure why this is the case but...). Try checking "Run in 64 Bits mode".
Does that work?
You're right. The WSUS.mmc has to be started with Administrator rights. Should have thought of this >.<
Running RDM as Administrator solves this problem and now it is embedded fine.
Thanks :)