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ahinterl's avatar
ahinterl
Brass Contributor
Dec 18, 2024

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...

22 Replies

  • nickirwin's avatar
    nickirwin
    Copper Contributor

    Glad I'm not the only one.  Tried an upgrade from 2311 to 2410 and it completely bricked our Admin Centre, couldn't even login.  Reinstalled selecting Kerberos/NTLM login auth and could then login but had same problem you had, claiming not joined to AD and received ajax errors when trying to connect to Servers via the Admin centre console

     

    Rolled back to 2311

     

    2410 doesn't seem fit for purpose

    • KazamelK's avatar
      KazamelK
      Copper Contributor

      Hello,

       

      How can I get the 2311 package 

      • JanKulbeMSFT's avatar
        JanKulbeMSFT
        Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft

        https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/0/5/1059800B-F375-451C-B37E-758FFC7C8C8B/WindowsAdminCenter2311.msi

      • wrecklessw1's avatar
        wrecklessw1
        Copper Contributor

        Find the machine cert make sure that the subject is not blank as well at the network service account to be able to manage the keys