Another great feature is making use of Windows Admin
Center within the Azure portal.
This is currently a feature that is in preview at the time of recording,
but it is super useful, so let's take a look at how we can set this up.
From my Azure portal, I'm going to select my virtual machine.
This machine has to be running in order to use the
Windows Admin Center extension.
When you select your virtual machine, under Settings,
you will notice that there is a section titled Windows Admin Center,
which is in preview mode.
Selecting that option,
will take you to the installation page of Windows Admin Center.
Now since this is a new virtual machine,
I would need to install the Windows Admin Center agent in
order for it to work with the Azure portal.
I can do that by using the installation procedure on the web page.
So looking at the options that I have,
I can modify the port, and I also want to open an outbound port for Windows
Admin Center so that the installation can take place.
Next, I'm going to go ahead and click on Install,
and now Azure will go ahead and open up the relevant traffic on the firewall,
and then it will go and actually install the Windows Admin Center on that
machine so that I could access it from the Azure portal.
Let's give this a couple of minutes to run, and we will see the results.
So now that the Windows Admin Center extension has been successfully installed,
let's go ahead and connect to this virtual machine.
Staying within the Windows Admin Center component,
I have the option to select which IP address I would like to connect
on, so I'm going to leave this set to the Public IP address and I'm
going to go ahead and click on Connect. Next, the Windows Admin
Center will be initialized and then I'm presented with a login page.
On this login page,
I will use the local account that's been created for this virtual
machine, and after successful authentication,
the Windows Admin Center would start up. Now as the Windows Admin Center loads,
you'll take notice that this looks exactly like the one that
we've just deployed on the client machine.
So within Azure, I can actually make use of the Windows Admin Center to go
ahead and configure and make changes to this virtual machine.
I can perform everything from PowerShell commands,
modifying the firewall settings,
installing additional applications, along with different roles and features, and so forth.