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What Is Windows Admin Center? A Quick Overview

Windows Admin Center (WAC) is the modern evolution of “in-box” management tools, like MMC (Microsoft Management Console) and Server Manager for Windows Server management. WAC provides wizards to guide users through its deployment and deploying Windows Servers and other cluster solutions. Learn more about what Windows Admin Center features and capabilities might be useful to...

Last Update: Apr 03, 2024

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How to Use Role-Based Access Control with Windows Admin Center

In this article, I’ll explain what role-based access control (RBAC) is and how to configure it in Windows Admin Center. Next, I will cover topics such as creating roles, assigning permissions, and adding users and groups. I’ll include best practices and tips for managing access to your resources with Windows Admin Center. Windows Admin Center…

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How to Use Windows Admin Center

Last Update: Apr 03, 2024

In this article, I will demonstrate how to use Windows Admin Center (WAC) to remotely manage your servers. If you haven’t already, check out my article on how to download and install Windows Admin Center before starting with the tutorial below. How to Use Windows Admin Center When you launch Windows Admin Center, you’ll see…

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How to Download and Install Windows Admin Center

Last Update: Mar 29, 2024

Back at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando, FL, I attended the session where ‘Project Honolulu’ was announced and demonstrated. This was a fresh, built-from-scratch new server management tool for Windows Servers, Windows 10, and Azure resources. I do recall there being a large number of applause sessions from all the IT Pros in the audience!…

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What Exactly Is Microsoft Endpoint Manager?

Last Update: Apr 14, 2022

Looking at a recently-announced product called “Microsoft Endpoint Manager”. While the product name and management interface may be shiny and new, you’ll probably recognize the underlying products as some of the same familiar products that device administrators have known for years. We’ll break down what’s included and some changes that may benefit and impact current and future deployments.

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Disaster Recovery Features in Windows Server 2019

Microsoft has released a new version of SharePoint and with it comes a couple new features to help you recover from an outage.

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Hybrid Cloud: Microsoft Azure vs Amazon AWS

A closer look at how Amazon and Microsoft are attacking the hybrid cloud markets with each having a slightly different approach.

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Windows Admin Center 1809 Reaches General Availability

Just before Microsoft’s Ignite conference got started this week, version 1809 of the Windows Admin Center and SDK reached general availability. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at some of the new features.

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