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Windows Admin Center.

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What is Windows Admin Center?

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Why do you care?

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Well, to set the stage, first of all, recall that in Windows Server,

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for quite a few years, as a matter of fact,

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we've had Server Manager as our main line graphical user

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interface multi‑server management tool.

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Works fine.

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It's okay,

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I mean you can install it on your client machine as part of

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the remote server administration tools,

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but nowadays we're in a cross‑platform world more than ever before,

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aren't we?

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I mean, Microsoft has their own Linux distribution for use in Azure,

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for heaven's sake.

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The Server Manager tool is a Windows only .NET Framework desktop application,

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so yes, it's available on domain controllers and yes,

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as I said, it's part of the RSAT tool set,

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and that's great and wonderful if you're on Windows,

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but that's not the case for everybody.

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I have plenty of friends and colleagues who use a macOS

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computer as their primary work station.

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What do we have to help manage Windows Server in that environment?

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Are we going to do virtual machines?

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Well, you can, but you don't have to.

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Nowadays we have Windows Admin Center, also called WAC.

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This is a browser‑based multi‑server management tool that is

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available cross‑platform. Microsoft officially supports it on

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Edge and Google Chrome browsers.

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One thing to keep in mind, Windows Admin Center is not available on

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domain controllers, so you can install it on your member servers, and

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in that case, the servers will be Windows Admin Center gateways, where

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you can connect centrally, multiple users can connect to the same

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instance of WAC, or you can install it as a singleton instance on your

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client device.

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Under the hood, as I mentioned,

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Windows Admin Center uses PowerShell Windows Management

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Instrumentation, or WMI, and then WinRM is the Windows Remote

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Management service that underlies PowerShell remoting. There's a

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couple important AZ‑800 exam alerts that I have governing Windows

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Admin Center, and I'd like to do that in demo, so let's do that next.