Hello and welcome back.
In this lesson we will add more machines to our Windows admin center and take a look at what tools it
has.
First let's add the rest of the machines we have.
Click on add.
I will choose Windows Server
let's use the active directory search I will type my server name which is brought as service 01 click
on Search.
Select the server and click add.
Now I want to add my Windows 10 pieces.
Click on Add and select windows.
P.S.
tab the name of your workstations
click search selected and click add.
I have another Windows 10 B.S. So I will quickly add that one as well
let's try to connect to one of our workstations.
Click on it and the list of connections we have here.
This error indicates a problem with windows remote management service when as admin center relies on
Windows remote management service that needs to be running and accessible through the firewall on clients
computers.
Let's fix it.
We need to log into this Windows 10 machine
open up command prompt
to make when are available on Windows 10 pieces we can use the following command.
When our M space quick config say yes to that question that will start the service and change the startup
type from manual to automatic say yes to this as well.
This will add an exception to Windows Defender firewall and allow the port used by when our M to be
available for inbound connections you also need to ensure that the network type on this client is set
to either domain or private.
Let's go back to our server and try to connect again
enter your credentials and click continue.
This is what managing your pieces through windows Admin Center looks like servers have a few more options.
The more stations.
So let's go to one of our servers and review all of the tools available to us
right away we're presented with general information about this machine.
We can see it's heart rate properties and utilization.
This is almost like giving the performance type of a Test Manager window.
Let's quickly go through all the tools we have here.
Azure hybrid services you can connect to your services which provides features like monitoring diagnostic
backup etc. Microsoft Azure comes with an additional cost and is not very likely to be used in a small
environment.
So we won't discuss it in detail here as your backup.
Here you can set a backup to Azure cloud Azure files sync here you can utilize Azure to synchronize
files between your servers and multiple locations and Azure cloud Azure monitor this Azure service can
monitor your servers and send notifications via email as your security center provides unified security
management and Advanced Threat Protection certificates.
This still allows access to the certificate store of the connected client you can import and you certificate
export an existing one or issue certificate request let's demonstrate this by exporting one of the existing
certificates.
Select any certificate.
Click on export choose D.R. click OK and safe and the file was downloaded
devices.
This tool gives the same visibility as you would have with the device manager snap in.
You can see all the harbour on the server here.
You have an option to disable devices or to update drivers
events.
Here you can browse logs that it would be otherwise available in the event viewer
files you have access to the file system of our server we can download and upload files create new folders
let's download a small file to see how this works
firewall.
This tool lets you modify Farmville rules which would normally do through the windows defender firewall
with event security on the local machine.
Let's take a look at the settings of this rule
installed apps.
This too allows you to see what applications have been installed on this machine.
You can also remove applications from here
local users and groups because this is a domain controller.
We cannot configure local users and groups on any other workstation or server.
That is not a domain controller.
This would allow us to perform the same tasks as you would in the local users and group SNAP and such
as creating and deleting local users and groups or modifying their properties network.
This you shows us available next on this machine.
You can modify the adapter options from here performance monitor.
This still is similar to the performance monitor snap and where you can collect different performance
data which allows for effective troubleshooting power shell.
This still establishes a partial session to the machine we connected to and lets us run scripts remotely.
It will ask for the password of the account we used to connect.
Put your password and just to demonstrate let's issue the following comment IP config.
So now we know the IP of this machine.
Let's use another command hostname just to be sure that we are connected to the proper machine
processes.
This is like looking at a test manager window.
You can see different processes running on the computer and how much resources they're using.
You can also start and end processes from here.
Registry you can connect to the register of remote computer and make changes using this tool
remote desktop this lets you connect to remote computers using remote desktop protocol
Rosen features.
From here you can manage your Windows servers and install roles and features all from one place
to demonstrate how it works.
Let's install the telnet client click on install.
Say yes to that
and after a few moments.
It was successfully installed.
Scheduled Tasks.
This provides the same capability as the test scheduler
lets you properties of one of the tasks we have in our library.
Services.
This essentially is the services snap in and allows you to view services start and stop them along with
configuring them.
Let's try and stop a service
now.
I actually need my DCP server service running so I was start of the backup
storage.
Here you can see your drives their capacity and status.
You can also see volumes and even file shares
storage migration service.
This still allows you to migrate data across your servers.
It even works with older servers like two thousand three and gives a great way to move data from servers
in order to decommission them storage replication is an advanced option.
It can be used to replicate volumes between servers or clusters for disaster recovery.
This is usually used in larger environments so we will not discuss this feature in our course system
insights allows you to track your usage and make forecasts on how much your resource usage can grow
and what capacity you might need to add in the future updates.
You can install and configure options for Windows updates from here.
Settings here you can configure things like environment variables power configuration remote desktop
Android based access
lets go to settings of our windows Admin Center.
Here we have different options like Account Settings personalization language.
The most important part in my opinion here is the extensions.
Here you can start more extensions to manage different features of your servers.
For example we can install the Active Directory extension to be able to manage our Active Directory
from here.
This extension allows similar functionality to the Active Directory users and computer snap.
I encourage you to install Windows Evans center in your lab and explore different features it offers.
This concludes the last chapter of this course.
Thank you very much for watching and I hope you will be able to apply the knowledge you gained in this
course in your current or future job as 90 professional.