Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center (Formerly known as Project Honolulu) is a new, locally-deployed, browser-based management tool that lets you manage your Windows Servers with no Azure or cloud dependency. Windows Admin Center gives you full control of your server infrastructure and is useful for managing servers on private networks that are not connected to the Internet.

Windows Admin Center is the modern evolution of standard management tools. For example; Server Manager and MMC. It complements System Center and Operations Management Suite. It’s not a replacement.

Windows Admin Center is used in a web browser and manages Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10, and more through the Windows Admin Center gateway. The gateway manages servers by using Remote PowerShell and WMI over WinRM. The gateway is included with Windows Admin Center in a .msi package that you can download.

When the Windows Admin Center gateway is published to DNS and given access through corresponding corporate firewalls, it will let you securely connect to, and manage, your servers from anywhere with Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome.

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Familiar Functionality

Windows Admin Center is the evolution of management platforms like Microsoft Management Console (MMC), built from the ground up for the way systems are created and managed today. Windows Admin Center contains many of the tools you currently use to manage Windows Clients and Servers..

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Easy to Install and Use

Install on a Windows 10 computer, and start managing in minutes, or install on a Windows 2016 server acting as a gateway to enable your entire organization to manage computers from their web browser.

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Complements Existing Solutions

Windows Admin Center is compatible with solutions like Azure Operations Management Suite and System centre, adding to their capabilities to perform detailed, single-machine management tasks.

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Manage from Anywhere

Publish your Windows Admin Center gateway to the public Internet, once it’s configured, you can connect and manage servers from anywhere, all in a secure way.

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Enhanced Security for Your Management Platform

Role-based access control lets you configure which administrators have access to which management features. Gateway authentication options include local groups, local domain-based Active Directory, and cloud-based Azure Active Directory. Beside that, gain insight into management actions performed in your environment.

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Azure Integration

Windows Admin Center has many points of integration with Azure services, including Azure Activity Directory, Backup, Site Recovery, and more..

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Manage Hyper-Converged Clusters

Windows Admin Center makes it easier to manage hyper-converged clusters – including virtualized storage, compute, and networking components.

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Built for extensions for added functionality 

Windows Admin Center was built with extensibility in mind from the beginning with the ability for Microsoft and 3rd party developers to build tools and solutions beyond the current offerings, such as DataON MUST.