In The Last Issue Of The Free Windows Server 2019 Tutorial, We Became Somewhat Familiar With Server Manager. A Tool That Allows Us To Access The Functionalities Of Windows Server Easily.
In This Issue, We Will Continue The Above Topic.
Add servers
When discussing professional Windows server management, you will find that most of your work is in a domain environment, where the servers are all connected. If you click on Add other servers to manage on the above page or click on Manage at the top of the window and select Add Servers, a window like the one below will appear.
You can click the Find Now button to show the machines available on the network. After viewing the servers, you will select and manage them. To address the servers, select the desired server and click on the Selected button in the middle of the window to move the server to the right panel.
After clicking OK, the server administrator changes to show you more about the servers and their maps. When you log in to this single server, you will see a login message and server information.
In the example above, we are logged in to a server called CA1. But by default, no role is installed on this server. As a result, the Server Manager provides simple information. The image below shows that some services are not running on the CA1 server infrastructure.
Note: At this point, if you click the Add Server button, you will not see any options because you have no server on your network that the domain controller can detect.
Adding multiple servers to Server Manager is beneficial for monitoring servers and monitoring future configurations. We used Server Manager to add maps to our server, if you remember. But the function of Server Manager in adding maps and attributes to servers is more comprehensive than what we have seen.
First, select the server And then install your maps on other servers. If you add servers to your domain controller and then click Add Roles and Feature, you will see a list of servers imported to the domain controller enough to add a role to the server. The image below shows the servers we added to our domain controller.
Note that you do not need to sign in to add an AD DS-like role to other servers, as your domain controller can do this.
Remote server management tools
Using Server Manager helps log in to a single server with the ability to access, manage and monitor other servers, but what if you were to take it a step further and work a little more advanced? For example, what do you think if you could use a computer on your desktop to do different things on each server?
This unique feature is accomplished by installing a Microsoft toolkit called RSAT Remote Server Administration Tools. For example, a Windows 10 client computer is online, networked, and connected to a domain. We have to download and install RSAT tools from the following address on this computer.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45520
If you are using Windows 10 Blade 1809 or later, the tool is available as a Windows component and an optional feature that you must enable. To activate the above part, you must go to the Windows 10 Settings program, enter the Apps section, and select the Optional feature option to see the optional features. In this step, you must click the Add feature button.
The various RSAT modules are located in Windows 10 Build 1809 in the order shown above, installed manually. If you do not find the Remote Server Administration Tool on your computer, download the file and click on the installation file to install the component on your Windows 10 client computer.
After installing the RSAT tool, by typing Server Manager in the Windows 10 search box, the above tool will appear as shown below.
As shown in the image above, Server Manager in Windows 10 allows you to access and manage servers. To do this, click Add other servers to order and then select your servers. As you can see, the user interface of the above tool is the same as the Server Manager that you were already familiar with in Windows Server 2019.
Has the RDP reached its end?
The above tools have raised the question of whether RDP-like mechanisms have come to an end. Not! Advanced solutions and methods for managing server components are provided to control them without direct access to the servers.
Do. We have to log in directly to the servers from time to time, even if we use the most efficient and up-to-date management tools. Network administrators still use RDP to have full desktop-based access to manage and monitor all servers because the mechanism is convenient, and it is better to use a desktop-based approach to do some things.
Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Given that RDP is still an efficient way to manage servers let’s take a look at the capabilities of this tool, which offers a centralized management solution. You can use RDP tools to communicate with servers and even client computers within your network. Remote Desktop Connection Manager is a handy platform that stores various types of RDP communications that you have established with your environment.
Communication storage allows you to organize servers into groups in the future without even remembering their names and even store input information such as login and login passwords. The above tool has several capabilities that we will not discuss in this article. But to download the above means and get more familiar with it, refer to the link below and download the above tool.
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The following figure shows a view of the above tool.
Windows Admin Center
All of the tools discussed earlier have excellent performance and provide the best solutions for managing servers. But Microsoft decided to give network administrators another efficient tool called the Windows Admin Center (WAC). Windows Management Center is a client and server management platform that provides easier machine management.
The above tool is browser-based; once you install it, you will have access to the Windows Admin Center through a web browser, which is excellent. The WAC can manage servers, server clusters, and provider-based infrastructure clusters. The above tool can also manage client machines equipped with Windows 10. Are you familiar with the Microsoft Honolulu project?
If so, then Windows Admin Center is the Honolulu project that has been renamed and is now ready to use. Windows Management Center is designed to support third-party vendors and develop the above interface capabilities by building add-ons.
You are already somewhat familiar with the above interface. When you run the Server Manager tool, you will see a message introducing you to the Admin Center. If you click on the link in this message, you will take to a page where Microsoft has provided additional information about the above interface.
Install Windows Management Center
To install the above tool, you must first select the location where the WAC components are installed. True, this can be bypassed-but not unless you’re a techie who knows what he’s doing. In Windows Server, click on the link above to open the WAC tool page in the browser. Of course, you can also use the following link to open the above tool page.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/windows-admin-center.
Click on Windows Admin Center (version 1904.1) to start the download process on the above page. The above file is 60 MB in size.
Once downloaded, run it to install on the host device. Accept the default options to complete the installation process. Now it is better to select the default option of the certificate that Windows Server will create and which will expire after 60 days, and select the port number 443.
The installation process may be a bit time-consuming.
After completing the installation, write down the address shown in the figure below and click the finish button. Until the address of the Windows Admin Center page appears in your browser.
A window like the one below will appear by running the above tool asking for your username and password. (If you do not have user accounts on Windows Server and are using the default mode, enter the Administrator username and the password you have chosen to log in to Windows Server.)
Note:
Windows Central Management tool does not run on Internet Explorer, so we recommend using Microsoft Edge or Chrome. If you install Chrome on your server and enter the address of the above tool into it, the Windows admin window will appear as shown below.
In the next issue of Windows Server 2019 free training, we will continue the above topic.