Windows Insider Program for Server allows you deploy the Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview builds in your enterprise. The docs cover the new enterprise features we’d like you to test and describes how to do the most common tasks.
To allow the Windows Admin Center gateway to communicate with Azure to leverage Azure Active Directory authentication for gateway access, or to create Azure resources on your behalf (for example, to protect VMs managed in Windows Admin Center using Azure Site Recovery), you will need to first register your Windows Admin Center gateway with Azure. You only need to do this once for your Windows Admin Center gateway – the setting is preserved when you update your gateway to a newer version.
In the following Step-by-Step Guide you will connect Windows Admin Center to your Microsoft Azure Subscription.
From here you have to copy the device Code and hit the Link device login ( https://aka.ms/devicelogin )
This will make the connection between Windows Admin Center and your Azure Subscription.
Paste the Code into here and Click on Continue.
Sign in your Azure Subscription.
From here you are connected to your Azure Subscription.
Select the right Azure Tenant and Click on Register.
Go to the Azure AD App Registration link.
Click on Settings
Click on Required Permissions and then on Grant permissions
Click on Yes.
Windows Admin Center has now Permission.
Microsoft Windows Admin Center (WAC) Gateway is now registered to your Azure Subscription and you can use Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication and Azure Site Recovery to protect your Virtual Machines with WAC.
IMPORTANT : Before you can add Microsoft Azure VM’s to Windows Admin Center, you have to set the Azure Network Firewall portal settings and also the Microsoft Windows OS Firewall of the VM.
Networking Settings of the Azure VM.
Open for http WAC port 5985 and for https 5986.
To make the port more Secure you have these Options in the Firewall rule.
Now you have done this for Azure Networking in the portal, you have to do the same in the Firewall settings of the Virtual Machine Inside.
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Windows Admin Center is an evolution of Windows Server in-box management tools; it’s a single pane of glass that consolidates all aspects of local and remote server management. As a locally deployed, browser-based management experience, an Internet connection and Azure aren’t required. Windows Admin Center gives you full control of all aspects of your deployment, including private networks that aren’t Internet-connected.
Windows Admin Center supports several optional features that integrate with Azure services. Use the following information to configure the Windows Admin Center gateway to support these Azure integration features. Configuring Azure Integration in WAC
When you have Azure integration in place with Microsoft Windows Admin Center you can use Azure Site Recovery (ASR). Azure Site Recovery is an Azure service that replicates workloads running on VMs so that your business-critical infrastructure is protected in case of a disaster. Learn more about Azure Site Recovery
Protect your Hyper-V Virtual Machines from Windows Admin Center with Azure Site Recovery
.Use the following information to configure replication settings and create a recovery plan from within the Azure portal, enabling Windows Admin Center to start VM replication and protect your VMs.
Follow Jeff Woolsey Principal Program Manager Windows Server / Hybrid Cloud
Windows Admin Center Just Rocks also for our PowerShell Administrators 😉
Microsoft is introducing the New Windows Admin Center ( former Project Honolulu )
Last weekend I made my MVPLAB.LOCAL domain with Project Honolulu version 1803 and Windows Server Insider version.
I Made my Domain controller first and later a Cluster with the Windows Server Insider Build version 17639
With Microsoft Windows Admin Center it’s great to manage Windows Server Core version Servers, you got a great GUI interface and you still have a small footprint for your Server OS with Core 🙂
Windows Admin Center is a new, locally-deployed, browser-based management tool set that lets you manage your Windows Servers with no Azure or cloud dependency. Windows Admin Center gives you full control over all aspects of your server infrastructure and is particularly useful for managing servers on private networks that are not connected to the Internet.
Windows Admin Center is the modern evolution of “in-box” management tools, like Server Manager and MMC. It complements System Center and Operations Management Suite – it’s not a replacement.
Architecture
In my MVPLAB.LOCAL I was busy to make a Gateway to Azure for Hybrid Cloud Management :
But with the Microsoft announcement of Windows Admin Center version 1804 yesterday, I will Upgrade my MVPLAB 😉
In this episode, Microsoft takes a look at updates to Project Honolulu and PowerShell Core to manage your server infrastructure. Jeff Woolseyexplains the updates IT pros will want to know about and demonstrates what’s new in Project Honolulu – including Remote Desktop Protocol,Windows client management and PowerShell support. Speaking of PowerShell, Jeff also shows how everything has evolved to PowerShell Core, so you can manage your Windows and Linux workloads from one unified scripting place. You’ll even see how with a single cmdlet, you can talk to both Windows and Linux machines and get cross-platform joined outputs.
Project Honolulu is a flexible, lightweight browser-based locally-deployed platform and a solution for management scenarios. One of Microsoft goals with Project Honolulu is to make it simpler and easier to connect existing deployments of Windows Server to Azure services. With Windows Server 2019 and Project Honolulu, customers will be able to easily integrate Azure services such as Azure Backup, Azure File Sync, disaster recovery, and much more so they will be able to leverage these Azure services without disrupting their applications and infrastructure.
SCVMM 1801 supports management of ARM-based VMs, Azure Active Directory (AD) based authentication that is created by using the new Azure portal and region-specific Azure subscriptions (namely, Germany, China, US Government Azure regions).
What is New in System Center Data Protection Manager version 1801 ?
The following features are either new to DPM, or are improved for DPM 2016.
Modern Backup Storage – Using Resilient File System (ReFS) block-cloning technology to store incremental backups, DPM 2016 dramatically improves storage utilization and performance. The storage consumed by backups grows and shrinks with the production data source, and there is no over-allocation of storage. Resilient change tracking (RCT) – DPM uses RCT (the native change tracking in Hyper-V), which removes the need for time-consuming consistency checks. RCT provides better resiliency than the change tracking provided by VSS snapshot-based backups. DPM also uses RCT for incremental backup. It identifies VHD changes for virtual machines, and transfers only those blocks that are indicated by the change tracker.
Continued protection during cluster aware updates – Windows Server 2016 comes with the cluster OS rolling update, where a cluster can be upgraded to Windows Server 2016 without bringing it down. DPM 2016 continues to protect VMs during the upgrade, maintaining the backup service level agreement (SLA). Shielded VM Backups – Shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 help protect sensitive VMs from inspection, tampering, and data theft by malware and malicious administrators. DPM 2016 backups retain the protections provided by shielded VMs to ensure they can be recovered seamlessly and securely. Hyper-V with Storage Spaces Direct – DPM recognizes and protects Hyper-V VMs deployed on Storage Spaces Direct, delivering seamless backup and recovery of VMs in disaggregated and hyper-converged scenarios.
Hyper-V with ReFS SOFS Cluster – DPM 2016 can back up Hyper-V VMs deployed on ReFS-based SOFS clusters. Backup and recovery of RCT-based VMs and non-RCT VMs is supported. Upgrading a DPM production server to 2016 doesn’t require a reboot – When you upgrade to DPM 2016, you are not required to reboot the production server. To avoid rebooting the production server, upgrade to DPM 2016 and upgrade the DPM agent on the production servers. Backups continue and you reboot the production server when you want.
What is New in System Center Operations Manager version 1801 ?
Enter product key from the Operation Console
Linux monitoring
Improved HTML5 dashboarding experience
System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extension (VSAE) support for Visual Studio 2017
Enhanced SDK Client performance
Updates and recommendations for third-party Management Packs
Linux Kerberos support
Service Map integration
Microsoft Service Map automatically discovers application components on Windows and Linux systems and maps the communication between services. It automatically builds a common reference map of dependencies across your servers, processes, and third-party services. Integration between Service Map and System Center Operations Manager allows you to automatically create distributed application diagrams in Operations Manager that are based on the dynamic dependency maps in Service Map.
