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Windows Admin Center before Honolulu, is an evolutionary process for Windows Server in-box management tools; It is a single web window that consolidates all aspects of local and remote server management. As a locally deployed, browser-based management experience, Internet connectivity and Azure are not required. Windows Admin Center gives you full control over all aspects of your deployment, including private networks that are not connected to the Internet.

In a private cloud environment, you can manage server operating systems above Windows Server 2012, as well as Windows 10, and, of course, with Azure.

Installing Windows Admin Center is very simple, prepare a Windows Server 2016 domain as a gateway server, no role to install, just install a storage Replica Remote server Administration tool (RSAT) feature, The installation package that runs the MSI is ready for the next step (I don't have a demo here), and finally, by opening the local computer's 443 port access, the browser only supports Microsoft Edge and chrome Access

If you want Windows Admin Center to manage the storage replicas feature, then this Windows Admin Center Gateway server requires Windows Server 2016 Data Center Edition

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Viewing Windows Server 2012 or R2 system (contains Hyper-V) information requires the installation of the Windows Management Framework 5.1

The default installation is a self-signed certificate, expires in 60 days, and can be changed in the program if an enterprise internal certificate needs to be replaced

Select Change

Enter a new certificate fingerprint to

Next we start to visit our Windows Admin Center console

Enter the domain Administrator account login to see the Welcome tutorial

You can set permissions, who can access admin Center

Gateway users can connect to the Windows Admin Center Gateway service to manage servers through the gateway, but they cannot change access rights and cannot change the authentication mechanism used to authenticate the gateway.

The gateway administrator can configure who can access and how the user authenticates the gateway. Only the gateway administrator can view and configure access settings in Windows Central Administration. The local administrator on the gateway computer is always the administrator of the Windows Central Administration Gateway Service.

You can also install some feature extensions

If you have an Azure account, you can also register your local Admin center with Azure to manage the private cloud to public cloud How to configure integrated Azure see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ Windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/configure/azure-integration

Admin Center can add a server type that needs to be managed, which can be a single server, a failover cluster, a hyper-converged Windows Server environment, and Windows Client.

For example, I add a cluster

Select one of the servers can see many of the Server Management menu and health, imagine the future if Windows Server removes the graphical GUI, the server's performance should be better managed more centrally. See the real-time status of common performance indicators

And the real-time transmit receive size of the network card

Very intuitive to see an overview of each feature menu, such as the PowerShell command to perform a specified server on a web version

To view the event log for a specified server

Managing Disks

Manage Storage replicas (hyper-converged architecture is used, such as S2D)

Specify the server's file resource management

To specify Windows Update for a server

Specify local user and group management for the server

Specify registry management for the server

Specify the network management for the server

Specify role and feature management for the server

Specify the device management for the server

Service management for the specified server

Specify the server's certificate management

Specify the process management for the server

Remote Desktop login for the specified server in the Web

Specify firewall management for the server

Take a look at the failover cluster and see an overview (there may be bugs here, and you'll never see anything in circles)

You can also see the virtual machine summary

I don't think it shows all, waiting for the next version of Windows Admin Center to see if it's working

The role is all the virtual machine roles in my failover cluster

It's a Web-based server Manager that's powerful enough to manage multiple servers and operate on a single web platform, complementing the management functionality of Windows Server and System Center.

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