I think this is supposed to be an obvious feature of MMC's "Add or Remove Snap-ins" dialog, but it actually took me a while to figure out, so maybe other people could learn too.
The Microsoft Management Console, as you may know, is a host for snap-ins, which are GUIs that let you do system administration tasks. Without them, MMC would be pretty useless. You can add some to your "console" (I prefer the term "workspace") by pressing Ctrl+M or choosing "Add/Remove Snap-in" from the File menu. The resulting dialog lets you move available snap-ins into the console. After you run through their short configuration wizard, they get added to the right-hand pane under the Console Root folder.
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| MMC, with a snap-in |
You will probably notice a snap-in called Folder, which isn't actually a snap-in. Adding it creates a folder under Console Root, but even when you select it, new snap-ins aren't added as children of it. To actually put things in a folder, you have to click the Advanced button and check the box allowing snap-ins to be added to folders.
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| The Advanced dialog, properly configured |
A drop-down now appears above the right-hand pane. If you add a folder and then select it from that list, snap-ins will be added as children of that folder when you click Add.
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| Now with things in folders |
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