- [Instructor] For all of PowerShell's flexibility
and capability, there is an area where it falls short.
This text-only environment where Powershell operates,
lacks the ability to display comprehensive reports
that are easy to quickly view and interpret.
Before we get into take a look
at examples of what I'm talking about.
Let's first go through the process
of installing the Windows Admin Center.
The newest Administration tool from Microsoft.
We're still here on the Windows 10 Workstation
that is joined to our active directory domain
and from here, I'm just going
to do a simple web search for download windows admin center.
Whenever you do one of these searches,
look for something at microsoft.com.
At Microsoft documents websites you'll often find
some of the most helpful information.
And here I can find Hello, Windows Admin Center
and here's a link to go ahead and download it.
So let me go ahead and download that.
To make it easy to find I'm going
to save it on the Desktop.
And it's not even a very big file,
you can see that downloaded pretty quickly.
I did a little bit of background work
on this machine before starting this demo.
I installed an SSL Certificate,
because the Windows Admin Center
is a web-based administration tool.
Meaning this workstation is about
to host a website specifically
to be accessed on this machine,
but it's a website nonetheless.
And so it will open in a browser.
So a certificate that is trusted is necessary
to verify the identity of this website.
So now that it's downloaded,
let me go ahead and close all of these extra windows
and just go ahead and run the installer packages
for the Windows Admin Center.
And it's pretty straight forward
except the license agreement.
Move on to Next, it asks you whether you want
to receive your updates from Windows Update
or from Microsoft Update, or if you want
to track that yourself.
I'm going to go ahead and select use Microsoft Update.
I found that to be the most useful path to take.
And as I move Next, you can see
that I can select a TCP port for the WAC
or the Windows Admin Center website.
I'm going to leave the default of 6515
and when we look at the following options,
we can allow Windows Admin Center Install
to modify the trusted hosts,
so that we don't receive security errors.
We can choose to create a desktop shortcut
to launch the Admin Center.
Because it will always open in a browser,
I'm going to go a different route.
I'm just going to create a bookmark
in my browser instead.
So, when I go ahead and click Install,
it will go through the process
of making all of these changes,
which in true fashion, Windows wants me
to verify that that's okay.
So I click Yes, and then we get the exciting process
of watching that progress bar move across the screen.
We're going to go ahead and speed that up a little bit
so that you don't have to wait to long on me.
There we go, now that we've completed
that part of the install, you can see here,
that we're reminded that we're going
to need to apply a certificate.
The first time we run the WAC,
we'll be asked if we have a certificate
and we can select it.
So we're going to make sure that we choose the certificate
that will be trusted.
In fact, let's go ahead and do it right now
by checking the box to open Windows Admin Center,
and click Finish.
Here we're once again asked to verify
that this potentially system altering command
is allowed to run.
Let me go ahead and say Yes.
And then our default browser should open shortly.
Here I am, on localhost and there's that port number
that we were allowed to choose, 6516.
And here's the certificate.
We can select the Windows Admin Center Client Certificate.
This is the one we were told to look for.
So I'm going to go ahead and click OK
to select that certificate.
And here we are being welcomed to the Admin Center.
That's all it takes to install this on a workstation.
Installing it on a server is really the same process.
The biggest difference is, once you're done,
you can access that web server
from multiple stations around your network.
What we just did allows us
to use the Windows Admin Center
on this workstation.
And coming up we're going to take a look
at some of the differences in using this tool
versus some of the other versions
of administration and management that we've talked about.