Now that we've gone through an overview of Windows Admin Center,
let's go ahead and add some servers into the Windows Admin Center.
To do this, I'm going to click on the Add button,
and now I have the option to select either Servers,
Windows PCs, Server clusters, or Azure virtual machines.
So I'm going to go ahead and start with a server, and now I can either add a
single server based on the server name, I can import a list, and this list
can contain multiple server names in the format of a text file or a CSV
file, or I can also search Active Directory. So I'm going to go ahead and
search Active Directory for my domain controller, and I'll select my domain
controller and click on Add, and now my domain controller has been
successfully added.
I could modify the user account that's been used to log into the
server. By selecting the server tick box, I can click on Manage as,
and now I can fill in the details about the account that would be
used to manage the server.
I'll go ahead and populate this with the domain admin account, and I could also
use the credentials for all connections, or alternatively, I could use my
Windows account for a connection. And once I click on Continue, the password
has been added. To manage the server, all I need to do is select the server.
Clicking on it will take me to the server, and from here, I can manage the
server. Immediately, I'm presented with an overview page where I can see
statistics about the servers, utilization, and details about the server's
operating system, the hardware, and so forth.
Now before we work with the server and the settings that can be done from
Windows Admin Center, let's navigate back to the Windows Admin Center and
look at the other options that we have.
We won't focus on Windows PCs, but you get the picture that
adding a Windows PC follows a similar step process as what
we've just done for the server.
The same applies for adding server clusters, but I would like to focus on the
Azure virtual machine component. Here we can add an existing Azure virtual
machine, or we can also create a new virtual machine.
So let's go ahead and create a new virtual machine.
I now have the Create an Azure VM popup, which is currently in
preview mode at the time of recording, but I have all of my
Azure subscription details populated.
So let's work through this.
I've got my subscription, and currently I only have one subscription in
place, my resource group, which is Wiredbraincoffee, and I'm going to go
ahead and define a virtual machine name.
I can select the region. In my case, I'll put this in Europe.
However, under Operating system image, at the time of recording, I do not
have the option to deploy Windows Server 2022. But for the sake of the
demonstration, I'm going to go ahead and deploy server 2019‑Datacenter‑Core.
I'll then populate the local admin account.
I'll then select the standard D2 machine, and I'll keep this as a standard
SSD. I'm going to leave this as a member server for now, and I'll use my
standard networking setup that I have, and then I'll click on review and
Create and create the virtual machine.
Now, Windows Admin Center is actually going to connect to
Azure and create this virtual machine for me.
So you can see the ease of use of using Windows Admin Center managing
your resources in Azure by creating new machines.
But what if I wanted to add an existing virtual machine?
Well, that can be done through the Windows Admin Center as well.
So I'm going to close this window and navigate back to Add, and
under Azure VMs, I'm going to click on Add, and once I have signed
in, I will select my resource group, and then I've got the ability
to select my virtual machine.
Now the one that we've just created would show up in the
list, so I'm going to select mem2.
Now remember, this is my Window Server 2019 virtual machine.
I'll click on Add, and now that virtual machine has been
added into my Windows Admin Center.
So I'm going to go ahead now and populate the rest of my servers
within the Windows Admin Center. In the next video, we will dive
into more depth on how we can work with the servers using the Windows Admin Center.