Greetings and welcome back to the final chapter of this course.
In this video lesson we will talk about Windows admin center a new tool that was released by Microsoft
in 2018 according to Microsoft.
It is a locally deployed browser based app for managing servers clusters hyper converged infrastructure
and Windows 10 pieces.
When does that mean center comes at no additional cost and allows for central management of your Windows
based servers and computers.
It is like having the Microsoft management console for all of your machines in one place.
It supports Windows servers from 2008 R2 up to 2019 although you may need some additional preparations
and also it supports Windows 10 computers.
In my opinion Windows admin center is ideal for small office and provides an easy to use graphical interface
to manage and monitor your servers and workstations windows up and center cannot be installed on a domain
controller.
Therefore I had to spin up another Windows Server virtual machine.
I signed a new VM a static IP and I joined it to the domain.
I also installed another Windows 10 VM and join it to the domain just so I have more machines to demonstrate
what Windows admin center is and how it works.
Let's get started.
Oh my love VMs are turned on and running.
Let's log into the newly created Windows Server 2019 VM that will host our Windows admin center once
your browser and go to the following link.
This is where you can download Windows admin center from
click and download now.
Click on continue.
You need to fill out some information before you can continue
once you filled out all the required fields click and continue.
Let's save the file and now let's launch it.
Put the check mark here and click next.
I will select to use Microsoft update because it is always a good idea to keep your software up to date.
This message lets you know of different installation options.
In our case we're installing Windows admin center on this server and we're going to access it from here.
According to Microsoft modifying trusted hosts is required in the work group environment.
Or when using a local administrator credentials in a domain.
If you choose to forgo the setting you must configure trusted hosts manually.
We're in a domain environment so we can allow Windows admin center to modify this machines trusted host
settings.
We also don't care about using a P.S. only in the lab so we will leave the second option unchecked.
Here we get to specify port that will be used for the Windows admin Center to use this G.P.S..
You need a certificate so you can either generate a self sensor ticket or use an existing one but the
name on the certificate has to match the hostname of your server and you cannot use wildcards.
You can also choose to redirect ATP traffic to secure a G.P.S. for the purpose of the slab.
I will go ahead with a self signed certificate and leave port for 4 3 as my desired port.
Click on install
installation has been completed successfully and it shows us the euro all of our windows Admin Center.
Let's use it to log into our windows up in the center of Web site
we're seeing this warning because a self censor difficult that we just have generated is used for this
Web site.
Let's go ahead and accept the risk
enter your admin credentials here
as you can see right now it is pretty empty and we only see one server where Windows admin center is
actually installed on.
Thank you very much and we'll see you in the next video where we will add more devices store windows
Admin Center and explore how we can manage them through it.