Launching the console locally

The most straightforward approach to opening the GPMC is to launch it right from an Active Directory DC server. If you happen to be logged into a DC anyway, or are even sitting at the console, there are numerous different ways to open this tool. The one that you choose to employ regularly is completely your preference, but knowing various ways to accomplish the same task is always helpful in the Microsoft Windows world, so let's take a minute and cover the different ways that you could go about launching the GPMC from a DC.

Server Manager – the most common way

You have probably noticed (and perhaps been annoyed by it) that when you log into most Windows Server operating systems, there...