Use the System Administration desktop

You can change the look of your System Administration desktop. By default it will show the banner, toolbar, navigation area and work area.

Find your way around

Use the navigation area to move around the different areas of System Administration.

You can hide the navigation area if you want to make more space for the work area. To do this, click  Show/Hide Console Tree on the toolbar.

Perform actions

To perform actions within the different areas of System Administration you can:

  • Select actions from the Action menu.

  • Right-click on an item in the navigation area and select an action from the drop-down list.

  • Show the actions in a pane at the right of the window and select the actions from there. To do this, click  Show/Hide Action Pane on the toolbar.

Common actions

The following actions are provided by the Microsoft Management Console The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) hosts the System Administration application (or 'snap-in'), and displays it as a console., and are described within the Microsoft Management Console help.

  • View

    • Add/Remove Columns

    • Customize

  • New Window From Here

  • Refresh

  • Export List

Use help

You can open the help in the following ways:

  • Press F1.

  • Click Help in a window.

  • Select Help > Help Topics to open the help, then select Sage 200 System Administration in the contents.

Search help

To search the help, click the Search tab.

Search for

Use

Example

Outcome

Any word(s)

Enter single word(s).

audit event policy

Finds topics containing any of the words audit, event or policy.

An exact phrase

Enter phrase in quotes " ".

"company licence"

Finds topics containing the phrase company licence.