Let’s first start with installing Windows Admin Center. This tool definitely wasn’t as beautiful, robust, and productive at 1.0. They succeeded! Traditionally, IT Pros and server engineers use Computer Management, Disk Management, Services, Device Manager, Windows Update, PowerShell, Event Viewer, File Explorer, the plethora of Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT), Registry Editor, really, the list goes on, and on, and on. Microsoft wanted to replace the need to Remote Desktop into every server you manage, use antiquated, potentially inefficient tools, and consolidate it all into one. The premise they sought to accomplish was to create a new, modern, flexible management tool that was browser-based and robust.

When the product officially went live on April 12, 2018, they christened it ‘Windows Admin Center.’ Background I was in the session where Microsoft’s Server team announced ‘Project Honolulu’, a brand new, written from-the-ground-up management tool for Windows Servers, Windows 10, and Azure resources. Back on September 14, 2017, at Microsoft’s ‘Ignite’ tech conference in Orlando, FL, I was fortunate to witness history, in-person.

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