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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.
 

Windows Admin Center - Part 1 Download & Installation

Windows Admin Center - It’s a web based tool using which we can do Remote Management of Workstations/ Servers.

Downloading from Eval Center

Link - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter











Installation

Run the Setup file --> Accept default values --> Windows Admin Center by default uses port 443.

If required we can use any other port from Empheral ports list range but make sure, we have Inbound allowed rule for that port.

Checkout my article on Ports in Windows "https://practicaladmin.blogspot.com/2023/01/logical-ports-in-windows.html"

















































Verifying if 443 is opened or not.

I have used Port query to check, but it can also be cross check either using Telnet or netstat command.

Listening means port is open.




















Accessing Windows Admin Center Console

From any browser, type https://servernamefqdn:portusedforwindowsadmincenter, in mycase it would be https://mms1.mari.com:443

MMS1 - Server hosting Windows Admin Center

Mari.com - Domain Name

443 - Port used in Windows Admin center.