[Autogenerated] in this clip will look at
an alternative tool for managing server
rolls, the Windows Admin Center. In 2018
Microsoft made the Windows Admin Center
broadly available and has updated it
several times since then. It's a browser
based management tool that administrators
can use to manage servers, server clusters
and even clients systems. It does not
require that any agent software be
installed onto the managed systems. We can
use the tool to install, configure and
monitor server roles, although the feature
said is more limited than the traditional
MMC consoles. The tool works both on
premises and in the Microsoft Cloud, which
is cool. Then we can access devices either
directly or by setting up a gateway
computer that multiple administrators
could access that we're still going to
need the administrative consoles for
active directory, D. N. S, D. HCP II s and
many other roles. So Microsoft claimed
that the Windows Admin Center is a single
experience for day to day activities is
clearly aspirational. Finally, the Windows
Edmund Center provides the Onley user
interface for a select member of new
Server 2019 features. But these do not
concern us here. As with server manager we
can run the Windows Admin Center on a
workstation or on a server. Installing the
product on Windows 10 for example, lets us
choose whether to manage computers
directly from this PC or install the
Edmund Center on a server to set up the
gateway. The link shown describes the
options and scenarios. You can usually
leave these checked boxes in their default
settings. Well, let's take a quick look at
what a role installation looks like with
this newer tool. Will install the hyper V
role here for setting up a server to host
virtual machines. And here's the Windows
Admin Center dashboard on a Windows 10
computer running in Microsoft Edge,
showing the computers that it set up to
manage. So I'll click the system running
Windows Server 2019 and after a short
delay, we see an overview page. And on the
left we have a scroll herbal navigation
pains of scrolling down. We will see a
link that says roles and features, which
looks promising. So click that and Walla
the list of possibilities appears on the
right. Note that the roles appear at the
top of the list and the features are lower
down I'll click the hyper V role here and
some descriptive text appears. And next,
all click and stall appear towards the
top. Wow, that's concise. So while you can
use this tool if you like, server Manager
lets me make quite a few more decisions
prior to the actual installation. In
General, Windows Admin Center is a work in
progress and does not provide as rich and
administrative experience as other consoles.