Windows 10: Announcing Windows Admin Center (formerly Project Honolulu)

Brink · Apr 11, 2018

At Ignite 2017, we unveiled the technical preview of Project “Honolulu” to the world for the first time. It sparked a flame of excitement in IT admins’ hearts. From multiple tools to a single experience for day-to-day activities, Project “Honolulu” was a dream come true with a simple and elegant solution to remotely manage Windows Server and Windows 10. The numbers confirm the ongoing excitement:

To everyone who downloaded and tested Project “Honolulu”, thank you! Your valued feedback guided our work and today we are thrilled to reaffirm our commitment to modernize the graphical administration and management experience by making this project generally available as Windows Admin Center!

What is Windows Admin Center?

If you’re an IT administrator managing Windows Server and Windows, you probably open dozens of consoles for day-to-day activities, such as Event Viewer, Device Manager, Disk Management, Task Manager, Server Manager – the list goes on and on. Windows Admin Center brings many of these consoles together in a modernized, simplified, integrated, and secure remote management experience.

Here’s how Windows Admin Center helps IT admins:

Simple and modern management experience: Windows Admin Center is a lightweight, browser-based GUI platform and toolset for IT admins to remotely manage Windows Server and Windows 10 machines.

Hybrid capabilities: Windows Admin Center can manage Windows Server and Windows 10 instances anywhere including physical systems, virtual machines on any hypervisor, or running in any cloud. Connect to the cloud with optional value-added features like integration with Azure Site Recovery for protecting your virtual machines, and support for Azure Active Directory to control access with multi-factor authentication.

Integrated toolset: Rather than switching between several different tools and contexts, with Windows Admin Center you get a holistic overview of your resources and the ability to dig into granular details. In addition to server and client machines, it allows you to manage failover clusters and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) deployments.

Designed for extensibility: We’ve been working with early-adopter partners to refine the extension development experience in a private preview of our SDK. That means soon you’ll be able to extend Windows Admin Center’s capabilities to 3rd-party solutions. For example, you’ll start to see 3rd party hardware vendors use Windows Admin Center to provide management of their own hardware.

Take a look at Windows Admin Center in action:

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Windows Admin Center is now generally available and is supported for use in production environments. We will continue with our commitment to add customer value by addressing user feedback and will continue to improve and update on a regular basis.

The upcoming release of Windows Server 2019 is another important milestone for Windows Admin Center as we deepen our investments in hybrid scenarios and hyper-converged infrastructure management.

Customer deployments lead to measurable business value

Speaking to various customers in our preview program, we’ve consistently heard that the excitement is justified and that the impact is real. Here are just a few examples:

“[Windows Admin Center] fit the exact need we’ve been looking for, a whole lot of functionality to gain access and insight to basic operations of our server farms, in an extremely lightweight manner!  We easily spent 20+ hours a month “managing the management system” before, with [Windows Admin Center] that has decreased our time/effort in managing the management system by over 75%, allowing our Operations teams to focus on more valuable tasks around improving security, compliance, capacity planning, and overall systems optimization.”
– Rand Morimoto, President, Convergent Computing“Thanks to [Windows Admin Center], we can manage our customers remotely from HTML5 portal without problem and with the full integration with Azure Active Directory, we are able to increase the security thanks to the Multi-Factor Authentication. The dashboards offer information in real time with full clear values of each server for each single role, with the possibility to manage every single item, thanks to PowerShell. The main advantage is the reduced time spent to use different console for each role.”
– Silvio Di Benedetto, Founder and Senior Consultant, Inside Technologies“We have been able to deploy [Server Core] SKUs in a more effective way, improving resource efficiency, security and automation while still achieving a good degree of productivity and reducing errors that can happen when relying on scripting only.”
– Guglielmo Mengora, Founder and CEO, VaiSulWeb
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Download Windows Admin Center today!

Windows Admin Center has no additional cost. As a separate download, Windows Admin Center can be used with valid licenses of Windows Server or Windows 10, since it’s licensed under the Windows Supplemental EULA. Download it now! This page is also the best starting point and has links to our newly categorized documentation content, how to provide feedback, reference information, and other resources.

Read more: Announcing Windows Admin Center: Our reimagined management experience Windows Server Blog

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Jack Cook - aka Help_Line · Apr 11, 2018

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Not sure I can help but I certainly would look to see if there is a Microsoft Store near where you are in Hawaii. Not sure just where you are located but there is one at
Honolulu,Ala Moana Center

Microsoft Store - Ala Moana Center

1450 Ala Moana Blvd 2238
Honolulu, HI 96814

(808) 954-3800

mofoman53 · Apr 11, 2018

Ovi Maps doesn't know Hawaii

Here are some screen shots from my phone.

First picture is my location - red dot in Honolulu

second picture is when I search online for honolulu - 7000 mi away from honolulu

3rd picture is where it takes me

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