Windows Admin Center - Part 2 || Configuring WAC, Adding & Managing Servers

Adding Remote servers onto Windows Admin Center

1. Login to Windows Admin Center --> Click Add --> Select Servers

2. We can now add server one by one or we can have a file containing list of servers and we can then directly import it or we can use Active Directory Search option as well to add.

For now, I have used Active Directory & specified "*" to list all the servers. I can then select the servers & Click Add.

For this demo, I have selected DC4 & MMS2.

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Managing Servers using Windows Admin Center

Once added, we can click on the server to connect from Windows Admin Center or else we can select & choose connect.
Note - This would directly connect us to MMS2 using an account from which you are currently logged in to Windows Admin Center.

Incase we need to login using different credentials, we can select the server --> Click Manage as & Enter different set of user ID & password to connect.

Once connected, we can explorer different services / utilities / features, WAC provides.

Example of few -

1. Overview : From here, we can restart, shutdown, rename or unjoin or join the machine to the domain.

We will be able to see live usage / metrics of different resources as well.

2. Under Files & Filesharing, we can see the Disk along with shared folder on the server if any.

3. From Install apps, we can easily see what's installed on the system. From here, we can even uninstall/remove the application as well.

4. Under Local users & groups - We can check local user & group accounts & can manage their membership too.

WAC is a great web based tool & there are lot of things that can be done using WAC.