Microsoft is launching a new management platform for Windows Server and Windows 10 machines. The company first launched the tool at Ignite last year as Project “Honolulu”, and it’s now available to all customers as Windows Admin Center.
Windows Admin Center is effectively a centralized solution for managing machines powered by Windows Server and Windows 10. Using Windows Admin Center, IT Pros can easily track, manage, and control their machines from a local, browser-based solution without needing to separately access all the existing tools like Event Manager, Task Manager, Server Manager, etc. in Windows. Windows Admin Center also comes with a platform for extensions which will allow users to further expand the functionalities of the platform with third-party extensions once Microsoft releases the SDK for building extensions.
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It is important to note that Windows Admin Center is a local solution — in other words, it doesn’t require customers to have an Azure account or even an internet connection. Microsoft received a ton of positive response from customers when the tool first launched in a technical preview, with more than 25 thousand deployments across the world. The company says Windows Admin Center is built to work best with Windows Server 2019, which will ship later this year.
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<p>Got this tool working quick on my Windows 10 VDI. </p><p><br></p><p>I then created a new VM in vCenter based on our current Widows Server 2016 template. It is running LTSB, 1607…the only version of Windows 2016 you should be running. I could not get it to run. Going through the doc's it requires server 2016 version 1709….which I did not even know existed. Apparently it dropped in October, with the 1607 LTSB being the only version I could get on our VL site since 2016 came out.</p><p><br></p><p>Anyhow the geniuses at Microsoft require 1709, which is NOT LTSB, which means it will be eventually forced into feature updates. Why anyone would want to run non-LTSB versions of Windows Server environment is beyond me. Why they won't release new versions of LTSB at least once a year so this kind of stuff does not happen????</p><p><br></p><p>@#$%&^*$!!!! Microsoft is swirling the drain pipe.</p>