12.3. What Happens after AGPM is Installed?

Once AGPM is installed, you might want to start it up. But you'll notice there isn't any AGPM icon anywhere on the server. The server is just silently running the AGPM service, waiting as a "storage vault" for GPOs we're about to feed it.

12.3.1. Firing Up GPMC the First Time

When you next run the GPMC on your Vista management station, you'll immediately be prompted with what you see in Figure 12.9. That is, the GPMC, now loaded with AGPM's client, is trying to connect with the AGPM server over port 4600—and in doing so raises Vista's hackles. You need to unblock the restrictions to ensure smooth communication between the client and the server. I would have thought answering the question we saw in ...

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