Installing Windows Admin Center in Windows Server 2019

In our last blog we installed the ADDS role in server core and promoted it to domain controller

https://eyeteahero.blogspot.com/2019/05/installing-adds-role-and-promoting.html

Windows Admin Center 

If you've been using Windows Server 2019 like I've been, then you've definitely seen this message before:

And for good reason...
Windows Admin Center is a new web based app that allows Systems Administrators to remotely administer computers and servers more easily. It replaced the many mmc snapins and other tools used in the past and puts everything you need in one easy to use location. It really is an amazing tool.

To download go to 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-admin-center

and click download


Click Save

Click Run


Accept the terms and then click Next

Click either radio button then click Next


Click Next

Leave the box checked and click Next
Change the settings if you like or leave them default and click Install
Click the link to review which browsers are supported and click Finish (Note: IE is not supported)
Go to https://hostname.domain:443 and type domain\domain admin ID and the password

Click Skip

You are now logged into Windows Admin Center


Check out the next blog post where we will be setting up File Services:

https://eyeteahero.blogspot.com/2019/05/adding-file-server-and-file-server.html