What is Windows Admin Center?
Windows Admin Center allows Server admin or Infrastructure admin to manage all server Infrastructure using a browser-based management tool. This tool will give admins full control over all infrastructure including Azure and cloud.
Single tool combines all system management tools like MMC, registry, storage many more. Modern “In-box” management tool.
Credit: Microsoft Documents
Easy to install and use
Install on a Windows 10 computer, and start managing in minutes, or install on a Windows 2016/2019 server acting as a gateway to enable your entire organization to manage computers from their web browser.
Server Manager gives this kind of popup on new servers.
Main feature of Windows Admin Center is shown below,
Credit: Microsoft Doc
We will explore the Server manager for Server 2019 using windows 10.
There are two ways we can set up a Windows Admin Center.
- Installing on Server 2019 as Gateway Mode
- Installing on Windows 10 as Desktop Mode
Once ready it will start installing,
You can select an auto-update using Microsoft. We are not doing this as a testing system,
Gateway setting for application and host system
You can always define a port for Site by default when you install on Server OS it uses 443 and for window 10 it uses 6516
Remember the port as you will require the same while accessing the Windows admin using a web browser.
We will use a self-signed SSL certificate for this. Or if you had your company or personal certificate for the system you are using we can give that at the time of installation.
To access the Windows Admin Center
Desktop Mode: Connect to the Windows Admin Center gateway from the same computer on which it's installed (for example, https://localhost:6516)
Gateway Mode: Connect to the Windows Admin Center gateway from a client browser on a different machine (for example, https://servername) for gateway it will ask for username/ password for the server to connect.
First look,
Once system is ready you will find base system already added to list,
From +add you can add a new connection.
You will find different types of connections available to connect as shown below.
To add the server, type your server FQDN or IP in Enter Server name box
You need to provide the user name and password to Manage the server. Once the server is added to list you will find the server as per below.
Next select the server and click Connect and you will find all management tools are available to manage that server in left corner,
List of available tools to manage the windows server is as per the below figure.
Once you are all done you are ready to use Windows Admin Center to manage all your servers and user systems using your web browser.
As per Microsoft site, the Windows Admin Center is only compatible with Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome.
Hope you like and use this technology for your day to day use.
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