How MMC snap-ins expose remote capabilites

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I have built a custom MMC snap-in, and I was wondering what the standard way is to extend my snap-in to have remote capabilities. For example, the default Windows Event Viewer snap-in allows you to connect to Another computer when you add it into your MMC snap-in list:

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It also exposes a right-click context menu that lets you Connect to Another Computer...:

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How is this generally achieved with MMC snap-ins? Is there a generic API for this or a standard way to get this functionality out of a custom snap-in?

Ideally, I just want to have one MMC window manage the same snap-in for multiple remote servers (saves the user the trouble of manually RDPing into them and using MMC remotely for each machine).

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