1 00:00:01,140 --> 00:00:03,730 The first thing we'll do in this demonstration is set up 2 00:00:03,730 --> 00:00:07,550 Windows Admin Center. You can download WAC from the Microsoft 3 00:00:07,550 --> 00:00:10,230 Evaluation Center. Comes down as an MSI. 4 00:00:10,230 --> 00:00:14,790 I'm on a Windows Server 2022 domain member server, as you can see here. 5 00:00:14,790 --> 00:00:18,760 And let me run the MSI package here so you can see what's involved. 6 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,880 I think I mentioned earlier in this learning path, that, depending 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,580 upon whether you're on a server or client system, 8 00:00:24,580 --> 00:00:28,140 if we were doing this on a Windows 10 or Windows 11 work station, 9 00:00:28,140 --> 00:00:30,830 then it would be a single user local install. 10 00:00:30,830 --> 00:00:31,400 However, 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,960 because we're on a server version of Windows, WAC will be set up as a 12 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,790 Windows service and it will be what's called a gateway. 13 00:00:38,790 --> 00:00:42,860 We're required to accept the software license terms. We'll click Next. 14 00:00:42,860 --> 00:00:48,970 You can opt in or opt out of what level of diagnostic data to send to Microsoft. 15 00:00:48,970 --> 00:00:53,980 It's recommended to let Microsoft Update update Windows Admin Center, 16 00:00:53,980 --> 00:00:58,210 and this could be if we're using Azure Arc, if this is an off cloud 17 00:00:58,210 --> 00:01:01,840 machine. We could use the update management solution, which in turn 18 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,720 can use Microsoft Update. Anyway, 19 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,070 I'm going to integrate it with Microsoft Update. 20 00:01:06,070 --> 00:01:08,320 Let's click Next to install the gateway. 21 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:09,360 I'm going to click Next. 22 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,380 Now, you'll notice that the default port for the Windows Admin Center site is 23 00:01:13,380 --> 00:01:17,900 443, and you've got the choice to generate a self‑signed certificate that 24 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:22,660 will expire in 60 days, or you can use a certificate that's on the computer, 25 00:01:22,660 --> 00:01:26,990 and we can optionally, although it's recommended, redirect HTTP port to 26 00:01:26,990 --> 00:01:29,860 HTTPS. Let me click Install here. 27 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:34,350 Set up is complete now, so we can use the host name of the server, 28 00:01:34,350 --> 00:01:38,080 doing an HTTPS call to connect to the service. 29 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:42,880 I'm going to authenticate with my administrative credential. Now this is not an 30 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,090 IIS application, and what we can do here, let me zoom in a little bit, is we can 31 00:01:47,090 --> 00:01:51,720 connect to the local server, which as you see, is a gateway, and depending upon 32 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,340 the extensions that we've installed, we then can come in and manage the system. 33 00:01:56,340 --> 00:01:58,550 Another thing we can do is add connections. 34 00:01:58,550 --> 00:02:03,570 So let's make a connection here, clicking Add, to a local server on my network. 35 00:02:03,570 --> 00:02:07,000 Actually, it's called vm1.timw.info. 36 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,330 Let's let it resolve. 37 00:02:08,330 --> 00:02:10,570 It looks like access was denied. 38 00:02:10,570 --> 00:02:15,910 Well, let me specify a username here, and then Add with credentials. 39 00:02:15,910 --> 00:02:16,660 There we go. 40 00:02:16,660 --> 00:02:20,270 And to begin to manage certain services on those servers, 41 00:02:20,270 --> 00:02:23,040 VM1, for instance, is a domain controller. 42 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,820 Hopefully it makes sense that we would want to do user and 43 00:02:25,820 --> 00:02:27,920 group management in this kind of stuff. 44 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:32,220 This is going to take us over under Settings, Extensions, where you can 45 00:02:32,220 --> 00:02:36,040 install the Active Directory and other extensions on the system. 46 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:42,000 Let me zoom out a little bit and click Install to install that extension on the system.