Windows 10: Announcing Windows Admin Center Preview 1807

Brink · Jul 17, 2018

Hello Windows Insiders!

Thank you for your continued interest in the Windows Admin Center insider preview! If you are new to the preview, check out last month’s post Announcing Windows Admin Center Insider Preview 1806 to learn the difference between GA and Preview versions, and review all the new features in the 1806 preview.

Release Summary

July’s release brings a new streamlined experience to connect your gateway to Azure, as well as a top customer request:

The Virtual machine inventory page now supports multi-select so that you can perform actions on multiple VMs at once!

Completely new functionality in this release consists of new file sharing functionality in the files tool, and Azure update management integration in the updates tool. These new features are described in detail below.

New Functionality

File Sharing

You can now add, edit, and remove shares from the Files tool! Fine-tune access with the ability to add and remove users and groups, as well as control their permission level. This highly anticipated feature is in preview, we are still busy making improvements! Stay tuned for additional sharing features and updates in upcoming releases.

Azure Update

We’ve added another way to easily leverage the power of Azure from your own environment with Azure Update Management integration in the Updates tool. Azure Update Management is a free service in Azure Automation that enables you to easily keep all the servers in your environment up to date, letting you manage and push updates from a single place, rather than on a per-server basis. Learn more about Azure Update Management.

With Windows Admin Center, you can easily set up and use Azure Update Management to keep your managed servers up to date. If you don’t already have an Azure Monitoring workspace in your Azure subscription, Windows Admin Center will automatically configure your server and create the necessary Azure resources in the subscription and location you specify. If you have an existing Azure Monitoring workspace, Windows Admin Center can automatically configure your server to consume updates from Azure Update Management.

To get started, go to the Updates tool in a server connection and select “Keep your server up-to-date with Azure Update Management”, and provide your preferences for the related Azure resources.

Note that you must register your Windows Admin Center gateway with Azure before using this feature.

Updated Functionality

Register WAC gateway with Azure (no manual PowerShell dependency)

It’s now easier to use Azure integration features in Windows Admin Center. Previously, in order to use an Azure integration feature, you had to download and run a PowerShell script outside of Windows Admin Center. We’ve removed the requirement for this script and you can now register your gateway to Azure without leaving Windows Admin Center. To register your gateway to Azure, go to Windows Admin Center > Settings > Azure and click “Register”.

You can find complete Windows Admin Center Azure integration documentation here.

NOTE: See the known issue with Microsoft Edge listed in the known issues section below.

Filter connections based on tags

You can now filter your connections list based on tags. Simply click the filter icon next to the search bar and select the tags you wish to filter. You can filter multiple tags using OR, AND, or NOT queries to tailor your filter results.

NOTE: See the known issue with multiselect and tag filtering listed in the known issues section below.

Miscellaneous improvements

The Server overview pane now contains the Windows Defender status.

Multiselect in grid – in addition to the aforementioned Virtual machine inventory, the multiselect functionality has been added in various locations, such as managing group membership in Local Users & Groups.

Scheduled tasks – multiple triggers are now supported.

Known issues in this release

Localization – some text strings in the new features are not yet localized.

Azure Update Management – you must manually refresh the page after configuring Azure update management. [18062195]

Microsoft Edge Browser – if you have Windows Admin Center installed as a service and using Microsoft Edge as your browser, connecting your gateway to Azure will fail after spawning a new (blank) browser tab. [17990376]

Tag filtering – if you select connections using the multiselect checkboxes, then filter your connection list by tags, the original selection persists so any action you select will apply to all the previously selected machines. [18099259]

Remote App feature of Remote Desktop – Remote App connections may fail. Regular, full Remote Desktop connections are not affected.

Azure integration – if you encounter issues registering your gateway with Azure, visit the troubleshooting guide.

How to Download

Registered Insiders may download Windows Admin Center Preview 1807 directly from the Windows Server Insider Preview download page, under the Additional Downloads dropdown. If you have not yet registered as an Insider, see Getting Started with Windows Server on the Windows Insiders for Business portal.

We value your feedback!

The most important part of a frequent release cycle is to hear what’s working and what needs to be improved, so your feedback is extremely valued. Send us feedback via UserVoice. We also encourage you to visit the Windows Admin Center space on the Microsoft Tech Communities forum to collaborate, share and learn from experts.

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Namslas90 · Jul 17, 2018

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Brink · Jul 17, 2018

Announcing Windows Admin Center (formerly Project Honolulu)

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

Law-II · Jul 17, 2018

Windows Media Center Live TV Help

Hi

go here - Hauppauge | Page Not Found select "Windows Media Center install" tab

look at - Setting up your TV tuner in Windows 7 Media Center - select download (will open a pdf with screen by screen instructions)
"Download
Here is a screen by screen view of the setup of Windows Media Center. It was based on the WinTV-HVR-1600, but the setup with other WinTV-HVR products will be similar."

Follow the guide stage by stage

let the TPU community know at what "step" Media Center gets stuck at Example: step 1, step 2

nb: It may be to do with your zip code and or post code not being entered

In regard to your DVD Rom drive - go to -control panel/device manager/DVD/CD-ROM drives -make a note of the make and model number Example: Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-215D ATA Device - highlight the device you have installed -press right mouse button-select properties-details-property and select Install Date from the drop down list and let us know this.

atb (all the best)

Law-II

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