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Windows Admin Center 2410: cannot add computers
After a fresh installation of Windows Admin Center 2410, I cannot add any servers, clusters, PCs etc. WAC gives me "You can add this computer to your list of connections, but we can't confirm it's available" when I enter a computer name (either of FQDN or computer name alone). When I change to the Search Active Directory tab, I get: "We can’t search Active Directory because the Windows Admin Center computer isn’t joined to an Active Directory domain. It’s also possible that your account doesn’t have permission to read from Active Directory." The account I use is a domain admin, and the server running WAC is definitely joined to the AD DS. The server had the previous version of WAC installed where everything worked. Now, with the new version, that's no longer the case...
Group Policy to allow specific users to install specific software without admin privileges
I am a newly system administrator for an organization and I am trying to create a Group Policy that will allow specific users to download and use certain software like LogMeIn123 without having to use admin privileges. We don't want to give full admin rights, but only for this specific instance. I have done some research, but I am not sure the best way to set this up. The problem is our IT team consists of 3 members total and cannot be everywhere at once and this would be beneficial in key times. I have seen some people recommend using a login script, but I am not sure how to do that. I have also seen some people recommend using a third-party tool which is out of the questions for our organization. I am also open to other ways and ideas of having preforming this. Can anyone please provide me with some instructions on how to set this up? Thanks in advance for your help! Additional information: I am using Windows Server 2012R2. I have a list of the specific users that I want to allow to install LogMeIn123. I have the LogMeIn123 installation file located on a network server.
How to connect from windows admin center to client using winrm with port 2828
Hi all, Due to security issues I need to configure the default port of winrm on windows from 5985 to 2828 and 2829 with https. I want to configure to connect from windows admin center to client which is windows server with winrm port 2828, what should i do. Thanks all!Failover Cluster Validation Stuck
Hello everyone, I'm having the following problem when creating a 2-node HA cluster (Server 2025) using the Windows Admin Center (Gateway). Up to the point "Validate Cluster" everything worked fine. Unfortunately, the process gets stuck at "1% Gathering data about nodes". However, I can confirm that the cluster report was successfully created on the first node without any errors. Has anyone else seen something similar and, ideally, have a solution for me? I checked the following: Permissions such as CredSSP, Remote Powershell and WinRM are correctly implemented on the WAC gateway and nodes. Manually execute the PowerShell command successfully: Test-Cluster -Node $ServerList -Include "Storage Spaces Direct", "Inventory", "System Configuration"Storage Migration Service - Can't open transfer and error logs after migrating data
Hi Community, After migrating a drive I'm trying to see which file transfers failed and why but I'm getting this message when trying to open either the transfer log or the errors only log: Transfer Log - Please check file sharing is allowed in your firewall. : This request operation sent to net.tcp://localhost:28940/sms/service/1/transfer did not receive a reply within the configured timeout (00:01:00). The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout. This may be because the service is still processing the operation or because the service was unable to send a reply message. Please consider increasing the operation timeout (by casting the channel/proxy to IContextChannel and setting the OperationTimeout property) and ensure that the service is able to connect to the client. My destination server is also the migration server (just migrating one drive) and all required ports were openend automatically, I've also double checked the firewall on the source server. Anyone have any ideas?
How do I create a new certificate for Windows Admin Center??
I just now observed that our internal WAC certificate was only two months old and it's already expired. Can I simply create and use our own self-signed certificate and use it?? Do I install it like normal certificates within the Certificates MMC and WAC will automagically use it?? Thank you, TomInconsistent WinRM Connections
Hi, I've deployed version WAC 2.4.1 (v2) in the past week and have found connections to servers outside the local subnet very inconsistent. The comms side of things have been checked and we have no issues with firewalls or ACL's, and our servers are properly setup to allow WinRM connections from nodes in other subnets (Windows Firewall is also configured accordingly). The connections from our gateway server to other servers (in different subnets) do work, but when we first logon to the gateway server each day I can connect to the servers on the same subnet as the gateway without issue, but then get WinRM connection issues for the other servers. However, if I then leave it for a couple of minutes and try again, I can get connected to the servers in the other subnets without issue and get no WinRM error messages. It's a very strange issue, and all the servers concerned are on Windows 2022. Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks, Kenny
