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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...Windows Admin Center needs a Group Policy Extension for GPMC
That's one of the important things that is missing in WAC 1907. even if not as part of the main features, make it available as an extension to optionally install it whoever needs it. Then, Microsoft can expect people to move from RSAT to the new WAC.Windows Admin Center version 2110.2 generally available!
With version 2110.2, you'll find: Support for HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) The ability to specify session duration time and also require manage-as sessions to reauthenticate after a set time. Bug fixes Extension updates Read Windows Admin Center version 2110.2 is now generally available! for full details.Windows Admin Center version 2009 is now generally available!
Today we announce the general availability of Windows Admin Center version 2009, the latest version of our reimagined server management experience. In this release, we have made improvements across the product with new support for Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI. Note that this release is pronounced as “twenty oh-nine” in regard to this year and month, and not in reference to the year 2009. Read our blog for more information: aka.ms/wac2009Windows Admin Center Preview 1909 is now available!
This release contains incremental changes and quality improvements for the new functionality released in the preceding previews. This will be the last preview release in anticipation of the next generally available release of Windows Admin Center coming in the next two months. See details about specific updates to Packetmon, and a couple visual changes in the official announcement here: https://aka.ms/wac1909Windows Admin Center 1904 GA update is now available!
As a platform, version 1904 of Windows Admin Center is generally available, and contains all the features and improvements of the previous monthly preview releases. As the number of capabilities grow, please note that some extensions and features are still clearly marked as “preview” to help differentiate newer functionality and allow for flexibility of ecosystem growth. Read the complete announcement on the Windows Admin Center blog!
Windows Admin Center 2410: Missing documentation
The Windows Admin Center 2410 (mg) has a completely different setup procedure, new cmdlets etc. But I am missing the documentation. Especially I want WindowsAuthentication getting to work. When I change the mode, the service crashes all the time. The best documentation, I could find was this blog entry: Windows Admin Center installation – old vs new | Going down the IT rabbit hole But I cannot believe, Microsoft is releasing a product without and docs.Now Available: Windows Admin Center 1809.5 Insider Preview
Windows Admin Center version 1809.5 is a cumulative update to our 1809 GA release in September which includes various quality and functional improvements and bug fixes throughout the product. This month, Windows Insiders get early access to our 1809.5 release before it is made generally available. See the official blog post for details on changes and how to download the new release: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/11/announcing-windows-admin-center-1809-5-insider-previewSupport for Proxy
When WAC is installed as the Gateway Service on a server it doesn't seem to be able to reach the internet via a locally configured proxy? I haven't tested connecting to Azure but the issue I have is I cannot connect to the Extensions feed and get this error: Feed is not available: 'https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Faka.ms%2Fsme-extension-feed'. I tried configuring a machine proxy as well as in my local profile, but that also didn't work. In the end the only way I could get WAC to work via a proxy was to configure the proxy on the Network Service account that the WAC Gateway Service runs under (by default). Then WAC was able to connect to the Extensions feed. Obviously this is not ideal and so I am wondering if we could have a way of configuring proxy settings in the Settings section within WAC in future? Or will this not be supported for some reason? Or should we run the WAC Gateway Service under a different account (e.g. gmsa) and set the proxy on that? Thanks
