Applies to: Windows Admin Center, Windows Admin Center Preview
Windows Admin Center is the evolution of traditional in-box server management tools for situations where you might have used Remote Desktop (RDP) to connect to a server for troubleshooting or configuration. It's not intended to replace other existing Microsoft management solutions; rather it complements these solutions, as described below.
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) is a collection of GUI and PowerShell tools to manage optional roles and features in Windows Server. RSAT has many capabilities that Windows Admin Center doesn't have. We may add some of the most commonly used tools in RSAT to Windows Admin Center in the future. Any new Windows Server role or feature that requires a GUI for management will be in Windows Admin Center.
Intune
Intune is a cloud-based enterprise mobility management service that lets you manage iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS devices, based on a set of policies. Intune focuses on enabling you to secure company information by controlling how your workforce accesses and shares information. In contrast, Windows Admin Center is not policy-driven, but enables ad-hoc management of Windows 10 and Windows Server systems, using remote PowerShell and WMI over WinRM.
Azure Stack
Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud platform that lets you deliver Azure services from your data center. Azure Stack is managed using PowerShell or the administrator portal, which is similar to the traditional Azure portal used to access and manage traditional Azure services. Windows Admin Center isn't intended to manage the Azure Stack infrastructure, but you can use it to manage Azure IaaS virtual machines (running Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, or Windows Server 2012) or troubleshoot individual physical servers deployed in your Azure Stack environment.
System Center
System Center is an on-premises data center management solution for deployment, configuration, management, monitoring your entire data center. System Center lets you see the status of all the systems in your environment, while Windows Admin Center lets you drill down into a specific server to manage or troubleshoot it with more granular tools.
Windows Admin Center
System Center
Reimagined “in-box” platform & tools
Datacenter management & monitoring
Included with Windows Server license – no additional cost, just like MMC and other traditional in-box tools
Comprehensive suite of solutions for additional value across your environment and platforms
Lightweight, browser-based remote management of Windows Server instances, anywhere; alternative to RDP
Manage & monitor heterogeneous systems at scale, including Hyper-V, VMware, and Linux
Deep single-server & single-cluster drill-down for troubleshooting, configuration & maintenance
Infrastructure provisioning; automation and self-service; infrastructure and workload monitoring breadth
Optimized management of individual 2–4 node HCI clusters, integrating Hyper-V, Storage Spaces Direct, and SDN
Deploy & manage Hyper-V, Windows Server clusters at datacenter scale from bare metal with SCVMM
Monitoring on HCI only; cluster health service stores history. Extensible platform for 1st and 3rd party admin tool extensions
Extensible & scalable monitoring platform in SCOM, with alerting, notifications, third-party workload monitoring; SQL for history
Easiest bridge to hybrid; onboard and use a variety of Azure services for data protection, replication, updates and more
Built-in data protection, replication, updates (DPM/VMM/SCCM). Hybrid integration with Log Analytics and Service Map
Lights up platform features of Windows Server: Storage Migration Service, Storage Replica, System Insights, etc.
Additional platforms: Automation in Orchestrator/SMA.Integrations with SCSM & other service management tools
Each delivers targeted value independently; better together with complementary capabilities.
WAC offers many advantages over traditional management tools, such as: Familiar functionality – WAC contains many of the familiar tools you currently use to manage Windows Servers and clients, such as Server Manager, MMC, PowerShell, and more.
Windows Admin Center is the modern evolution of "in-box" management tools, like Server Manager and MMC. It complements System Center - it's not a replacement.
The current platform capabilities and core tools meet Microsoft's standard release criteria and our quality bar for usability, reliability, performance, accessibility, security, and adoption. Windows Admin Center (non-preview) releases are supported continuously, based on Microsoft's Modern Lifecycle Policy.
Centralized Management – Windows Admin Center offers a 'single pane of glass' for your common management tasks when managing servers, workstations, and other infrastructure. All you need is a web browser. No Cost – Windows Admin Center is completely free to use, there are no license costs at all!
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Windows Admin Center has no additional cost beyond Windows. You can use Windows Admin Center (available as a separate download) with valid licenses of Windows Server or Windows 10 at no additional cost - it's licensed under a Windows Supplemental EULA.
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based mobile device management (MDM) solution that helps you manage and secure your devices. You can use Intune to manage phones, tablets, and PCs that are running Windows 10, Windows 8.1, iOS, macOS, Android, and Chrome OS.
Intune focuses on enabling you to secure company information by controlling how your workforce accesses and shares information. In contrast, Windows Admin Center is not policy-driven, but enables ad-hoc management of Windows 10 and Windows Server systems, using remote PowerShell and WMI over WinRM.
Before downloading and installing the Windows Admin Center, you need to meet certain requirements. A Windows Server operating system, Windows Server 2012 or later, the Windows 10 operating system or later or an Azure VM running on Windows Server or Windows 10 or 11.
A Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is a standard feature of Windows Server, used to administer and publish information in the directory.
Check the Windows version of the client and server. Make sure you are using either Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome as your web browser. On the server, open Task Manager > Services and make sure ServerManagementGateway / Windows Admin Center is running.
Windows Admin Center enables you to manage servers, clusters, Windows PCs, and Azure virtual machines (VMs) directly from your Windows 10 computer using a web browser. You must be a member of the local administrator's group to use Windows Admin Center on Windows 10.
Note: The person who signed up for Microsoft online services automatically becomes a Global admin. Assign the global reader role to users who need to view admin features and settings in admin centers that the global admin can view.
Windows Admin Center Download. Windows Admin Center is a customer-deployed, browser-based app for managing servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Windows 10 PCs. It comes at no additional cost beyond Windows and is ready to use in production.
The Windows Admin Center provides robust storage management tools to manage your server storage. With these tools, you can create, format, and oversee storage volumes, monitor disk health and capacity, and configure storage spaces and storage pools.
It's safer to have fewer administrators and to use standard user accounts for day-to-day activities. You can use the Settings app to make a user an administrator or revert an administrator to a standard user.
System Center lets you see the status of all the systems in your environment, while Windows Admin Center lets you drill down into a specific server to manage or troubleshoot it with more granular tools.
Answer. Administrators have the highest level of access to an account. If you want to be one for an account, you can reach out to the Admin of the account. A general user will have limited access to the account as per the permissions given by the Admin.
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