Windows Admin Center 23.11

Windows Admin Center is a web-based tool that makes it easier to manage servers, clusters, and hyper-converged infrastructure from a central location.

Windows Admin Center provides a single pane of glass to manage Windows Server and Windows 10 systems, including the ability to manage hyper-converged infrastructure, virtual machines, storage, and network devices from a single management interface. It also supports remote desktop, PowerShell, and Windows PowerShell Direct options, as well as rich graphical tools like Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, Device Manager, and more.

No, it’s not a direct replacement for all traditional tools. While it does provide a more modern toolset for managing systems with graphical management tools such as Event Viewer and Performance Monitor, it does not replace all traditional remote administration tools. While Windows Admin Center can be used to manage many roles and features of Windows Server (such as DHCP and DNS), other roles require separate MMC Snap-ins or other management tools.

The hosts running managed servers must be running Windows Server version 1709 or later or Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise version 1709 or later. The machine running Windows Admin Center can be any client device with a web browser supporting HTML5 (including Microsoft Edge Chromium)

Windows Admin Center uses role-based access control (RBAC) granular permissions to control user access and delegation of administrative tasks. Authentication and authorization in Windows Admin Center are configurable and extensible, with support for Active Directory, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and local accounts.

Yes, Windows Admin Center is a free, downloadable, Microsoft-supported tool that provides a modernized, unified, and secure management experience for Windows Server.

No. You can download and use Windows Admin Center for free to manage your licensed servers and infrastructure as long as you have suitable licensing for the server products you are managing.

Yes. Windows Admin Center supports deployment in air-gapped or closed network environments without an internet connection. You can download the installation package on another machine that does have internet access and manually transfer it to the machine where you want to install Windows Admin Center

Yes, Windows Admin Center allows you to monitor and manage Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) infrastructure such as Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). It lets you manage compute, storage, and networking from a single management UI

Windows Admin Center doesn't natively support managing resources that exist only in Azure or other clouds. However, you can use Azure Arc to enable management of non-Azure resources from Azure cloud services and the Azure portal, which integrates with Windows Admin Center for on-premises infrastructure.