It provides a single pane of glass management interface that helps administrators to consolidate their view of the Windows Server landscape in their environments. Message in Windows Server 2019 when launching Server Manager recommends trying Windows Admin Center When you launch the legacy “Server Manager” in Windows Server 2019, you will see a message box pop up recommending you try the new Windows Admin Center for server management. While Windows Admin Center is not included by default in current Windows Server versions, you can tell that Microsoft is pushing the use of Windows Admin Center. At the time of this writing, it is available in version 1809.51 in GA form and also version 1902 in Preview. It is a free utility available from Microsoft that is available to download at the official Windows Admin Center page here. It started life as Project Honolulu before it was properly named Windows Admin Center and is what Microsoft calls the “evolution” of Windows Server in-box management tools. Windows Admin Center provides tremendous value to administrators.

In this Windows Admin Center overview and installation post, we will take a closer look at the tool as well as features and functionality included giving administrators an all-compassing utility to manage Windows Server infrastructure both on-premises and in the cloud. They have delivered with a new tool that is set to become the de facto GUI administration tool for Windows Server versions to come – Windows Admin Center. Microsoft has seen the writing on the wall with new versions of Windows Server as well as the shift to the cloud, administrators need a better tool to be able to take care of the tasks at hand with modern infrastructure that stretches between on-premises and public cloud environments.

Microsoft unveiled a new tool that is set to change the way Windows Server engineers interface, configure, interact with, and administer Windows Servers, Windows Failover Clusters, and Hyperconverged clusters.

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