Windows Admin Center formerly known as Project “Honolulu” is a new local web-based management for your servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure and Windows 10 PCs.

So starting with deployment, there are several ways, installing locally in your own windows 10 machine, having a dedicated gateway server and directly in on a server cluster you manage. The gateway service can be installed on 2012,2012 R2, 2016 and 2019.

So you like the idea, but the real question in everyone’s mind “What can we manage?”

You can manage:

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2016 and higher

For the 2012 and 2012 R2 you need to install WMF5.1 or Higher

As for 2012 r2 and 2016 Hyper-V this 3 steps need to be taken:

Enable Remote Management. ( for 2012R2 first follow the above steps) Enable File Server Role. Enable Hyper-V Module for PowerShell.

Three managers

Server manager

Failover Cluster manager

Hyper-Converged Cluster manger

Server Features

Displaying resources and resource utilization

Certificate Management

Event Viewer

File Explorer

Firewall Management

Configuring Local Users and Groups

Network Settings

Viewing/Ending Processes and Creating Process Dumps

Registry Editing

Managing Windows Services

Enabling/Disabling Roles & Features

Managing Hyper-V VMs & Virtual Switches

Managing Storage

Managing Windows Update

Powershell Console

RDP

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identity Provider And RBAC which was missing initially in the Project Honolulu, was made available in the Windows Admin Center. Which now comes with RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) and the possibility to use Azure Active Directory as a Identity Provider

You can find more on the Microsoft Docs and for those that want to try it out, is available for Download