Windows 10: Windows Admin Center 1809 and SDK now generally available

Brink · Sep 20, 2018

The momentum continues

It’s been an exciting debut year for Windows Admin Center, the next-generation graphical management for Windows Server. Our team is committed to helping you manage your Windows Server infrastructure and instances, wherever they run, more easily and more efficiently. This includes delivering a platform and core set of experiences that improve day-to-day Windows Server administration, as well as lighting up new functionality and scenarios to help your organization unlock the full power of the Microsoft cloud.

In April, we announced Windows Admin Center and general availability of version 1804, and shared the user and business value provided by our reimagined management experience.

In May, we announced our SDK preview along with three launch partners to showcase the emerging value of the Windows Admin Center ecosystem.

In June, at the Windows Server Summit event, we declared Windows Admin Center as the fastest growing Windows Server management toolset ever, exceeding 1,000,000 total managed nodes in just over 2 months after GA.

In June, July and August, we continued with regular preview releases, each showcasing new and improved functionality through our Insiders program: Windows Admin Center Preview versions 1806, 1807, and 1808.

Today, we are very excited to present the latest generally available release of Windows Admin Center in support of Windows Server 2019. We are also pleased to announce that the SDK is now generally available.

Install or update today!

As a platform, version 1809 of Windows Admin Center is generally available, and contains all the features and improvements of the previous monthly preview releases. As the number of capabilities grows, please note that some extensions and features are still clearly marked as “preview” to help differentiate newer functionality and allow for flexibility of ecosystem growth.

Download: Go to ms/WindowsAdminCenter to download Windows Admin Center 1809 and browse updated documentation on a variety of relevant topics.

For customers currently using version 1804 of Windows Admin Center, upgrade to version 1809 within 30 days to remain supported under Microsoft’s Modern Lifecycle Policy.

What’s new?

There are too many additions to list them all, so here’s a summary of some key new and improved features added to Windows Admin Center since 1804…

Core functionality

Windows Admin Center continues to provide you with increasing value for single server or single cluster troubleshooting, configuration and maintenance tasks. Almost all of these were added as a direct result of aggregated user feedback:

View Script: See and copy the underlying PowerShell scripts for actions in supported modules, with syntax coloring.

Scheduled Tasks: View, edit, enable/disable, start/stop, and create scheduled tasks.

File Shares: View, edit, and create file shares and permissions in the Files tool and Storage tool.

Installed Apps (Windows Server): View and remove Win32 applications which are installed.

Apps and Features (Windows 10): View and remove Store and Win32 apps which are installed. Enable/disable Windows features.

Hyper-V: Improvements include multi-VM bulk actions, VM and host settings including nested virtualization and hypervisor scheduler configuration, integrated VM Connect web console, and more!

Failover Cluster: Added support for Cluster-Aware Updating, add/remove cluster node, validate cluster and an all-new cluster validation report UI. Hyper-V host settings on a cluster now allows you to make changes across all cluster nodes at once!

Tags: Editing and filtering improvements to better group and organize large connection lists.

Gateway settings: Improved categorization and updates to improve clarity.

Notifications: Improved notification system provides a more organized experience.

Windows Server 2008 R2: Supported as a connection target, with limited functionality.

Hybrid

Windows Admin Center continues to empower you with new and improved ways to optionally leverage Azure services from your on-premises environment:

Discover, deploy, and use Azure services: Enjoy streamlined setup right from Windows Admin Center, where it automatically provisions required Azure resources, installs necessary agents, and initializes the service behind-the-scenes. Windows Admin Center currently integrates with:

Azure Site Recovery: Protect business-critical workloads running on Hyper-V virtual machines from disaster.

Azure Backup: Protect your servers from accidental-deletion of data, corruptions and even ransomware-attacks.

Azure Update Management: Manage operating system updates across all the servers in your environment.

Azure AD authentication: Bolster the security of your Windows Admin Center gateway with features like conditional access policies and multi-factor authentication.

Azure Network Adapter: Connect an on-premises Windows Server 2016/2019 instance to an Azure virtual network via simplified configuration of point-to-site VPN.

Manage Azure IaaS VMs running Windows Server: Granular troubleshooting or configuration using Windows Admin Center, wherever you run Windows Server instances.

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)

Windows Admin Center continues to be the best way to manage and monitor hyper-converged infrastructure, including Storage Spaces Direct and SDN, powered by Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019. With this update, most HCI functionality is now generally available.

Clustering and Hyper-V: All the new features listed above, including multi-VM bulk actions, add/remove node, and cluster-aware updating, apply to HCI clusters too. For Windows Server 2019 HCI clusters, the VMs list loads as much as 5X faster, and VM detail pages include performance history (hour/day/week/etc.).

Storage Spaces Direct: Create, open, resize, or delete Storage Spaces volumes with just a few clicks. With this update, you can see pool reserve capacity and read/write cache statistics for Windows Server 2019 clusters.

Software-Defined Networking: All-new tools and capabilities to manage and monitor virtual networks, subnets, connect virtual machines to virtual networks, and monitor SDN infrastructure.

General: The HCI Dashboard and pages are more colorful, more consistent, load faster, and reflow better to different window sizes.

Windows Server 2019 platform

Windows Admin Center lights up several platform features which are new or improved in Windows Server 2019. In addition to several already mentioned in the sections above (Azure Network Adapter, Storage Spaces Direct, Software-Defined Networking), the following platform features rely exclusively on Windows Admin Center for graphical management:

Storage Migration Service: Migrate servers and their data without reconfiguring applications or users. It’s fast, consistent, and scalable while taking care of the enormous complexity and subtle environmental problems inherent to server migrations, all with an intuitive graphical workflow.

Storage Replica: Set up and configure disaster protection easily via replication of volumes using Windows Admin Center.

System Insights: Manage native predictive analytics capabilities in Windows Admin Center. Use rich visualizations and a simple management interface to understand future resource consumption across storage, compute, and networking.

Extensibility and ecosystem

Windows Admin Center is an extensible platform, and partner extensions continue to contribute towards greater customer value:

Extension Manager: Users can now get notified of available extension updates, update in just one-click, and use extensions from multiple extension feeds simultaneously.

SDK: Now generally available after several months of validation by multiple partners building compelling extensions. Recent improvements include a CLI to help you get started quickly and easily, updated samples which leverage the latest features, new and improved documentation topics, and a new PowerPoint design toolkit to enable quick and consistent design mock-ups.

Partners: The Windows Admin Center ecosystem continues to grow with more partners developing and releasing extensions for monitoring and managing servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure and storage devices. DataON is releasing an all-new extension for HCI management, Fujitsu’s preview extension is now generally available, Squared Up provides unique monitoring capabilities based on SCOM, and Pure Storage is releasing an extension for FlashArray management. The following new partners are currently developing extensions and will be demoing their progress in their respective expo hall stations at Ignite: Cisco, HPE, Lenovo, NEC, QCT, and Riverbed.

Ignite presence and sessions

If you are registered to attend Ignite next week, we invite you to come visit our Windows Admin Center station in the expo hall. Here’s a list of all the related breakout sessions which will cover various Windows Admin Center topics described above:

Main Windows Admin Center session

Windows Server management reimagined with Windows Admin Center

Windows Server sessions showcasing Windows Admin Center

Windows Server 2019: What’s new and what’s next

Windows Server 2019 deep dive

The Perfect Match: Windows Admin Center & Server Core

Windows Server 2019 platform feature sessions using Windows Admin Center

Windows Server 2019 System Insights: Simplified ML for the intelligent edge

Establishing hybrid connectivity with Windows Server 2019 and Microsoft Azure

Retire your old file servers with Storage Migration Service in Windows Server 2019

Hyper-converged Infrastructure sessions showcasing Windows Admin Center

From Hyper-V to hyper-converged infrastructure with Windows Admin Center

Be an IT hero with Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2019

Modernize your datacenter with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in Windows Server 2019

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Brink · Sep 20, 2018

Announcing Windows Admin Center Preview 1808

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 the previous posts for the 1806 and 1807 releases.

Release Summary

Much of the work in this release was under the hood – we are implementing new infrastructure to support future scenarios and improving the experience for the Azure Site Recovery and Azure Update Management hybrid scenarios.

Server settings such as environment variables, remote desktop and RBAC settings are now available as a standalone tool at the bottom of the tool list in the Server Manager solution. Hyper-V host settings are also available on standalone servers and clusters with Hyper-V enabled. The Hyper-V host settings on a cluster allows you to change configurations across all cluster nodes at once!

In Virtual Machines, a new security settings section has been added to the individual VM settings.

We’ve also made updates to the Windows Admin Center SDK (Preview), as we prepare for our upcoming SDK GA. We’ve added a CLI to enable easy creation of tools and solutions; added the ability to target different SDK versions; refreshed SDK examples for tool, solution, and gateway plugin; and updated our publishing options.

New Functionality

Preview: Apps & Features tool

Apps & Features is a new extension that allows Administrators to remotely manage the components that are installed on their Windows deployments. When connecting to a Windows 10 client, the extension will load both the Apps (Store and Win32) that are installed, as well as the Features that can be enabled or disabled. When you connect to a server, you will just see the Apps portion of the extension. This feature is currently available in preview on our extension feed and can be installed from the Available Extensions in the Extension Manager.

Updated Functionality

Task Scheduler

Added weekly & monthly triggers, support for multiple triggers.

File share improvements

File sharing has been expanded to multiple tools and includes more features! In the Files tool, now you can quickly share a folder, edit share permissions, or stop sharing a folder from the action buttons. We’ve added the ability to set Deny as a permission option on a user or group, and the folder icon now indicates if a folder is shared. Additionally, in the Storage tool on the file shares tab, you can now create a new share, edit a share, or remove a share.

Azure Update Management support in service mode (gateway installation on a server)

Last month when we released Azure Update Management support, the feature was only usable from Windows Admin Center installed on a desktop. The feature now works regardless of how you’ve deployed Windows Admin Center. Azure Update Management is a free service from Azure security and management that lets you manage and update all the servers in your environment from a central place.

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

For Hyper-Converged clusters, the Drives > Summary page now shows the recommended reserve capacity to help you size volumes optimally. There are also two new charts on this page, showing the hit rate of the Storage Spaces Direct read cache (higher is better), and how full the write cache is (lower is better). To make advanced concepts like these more approachable, we’re added explanatory tooltips, with links to documentation, all throughout the HCI experience.

This month we also began work to make the Hyper-Converged Cluster experience responsive to different viewport sizes. The Drives > Summary page is a good example: whether your monitor is 1920×1080, 1366×768, or even if you have the browser window snapped to half the screen (e.g. 960px width), everything reflows elegantly and displays correctly. Note that we have NOT completed this work for certain pages, such as the Dashboard, just yet – stay tuned for future updates.

SDK Updates

Windows Admin Center CLI

We’ve released the Windows Admin Center CLI as part of the SDK! The CLI installs seamlessly alongside your other global dependencies by running ‘npm install -g windows-admin-center-cli’. Once installed, you can create a new empty tool or solution with a single command, with more features planned in upcoming releases. Read more about using the CLI in our SDK documentation.

Target an SDK version

Keeping your extension up to date with SDK changes and platform changes is easy. We’re using NPM to tag the GA release, preview release, and latest versions of our platform dependencies. Learn how to use those to update your development environment automatically, and switch between versions to validate your extension’s integration with our latest features.

Refreshed SDK examples

We’ve refreshed the tool, solution, and gateway plugin examples to leverage all the latest features in the Windows Admin Center platform, and the examples are now built on top of the Windows Admin Center CLI. Check them out!

Publishing extensions and plugins

You have more options for publishing extensions and gateway plugins. Now you can bundle a gateway plugin with an extension package.

What’s next?

We’re on the path to GA release of the Windows Admin Center SDK! A number of additional improvements and new content are planned between now and then, stay tuned for updates.

Known issues in this release

Events – A expanding the navigation tree a couple levels deep, it may appear that there are many duplicate items. These are not duplicated, but the result of the content below that point being flattened in to one level. [18588187]

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]

HCI – The total size of the write cache is incorrect and variable, and the “donut” visualization can sometimes be out of sync with the legend values by 1 update cycle (30 seconds).

How to Download

Registered Insiders may download Windows Admin Center Preview 1808 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.

Terms of Use

All pre-release software made available to you via the Windows Server Insider program are governed by the Insider Terms of Use.

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Brink · Sep 20, 2018

Windows SDK for Facebook

We’re pleased to announce a new open source library for integrating Facebook into your Windows apps. The Windows SDK for Facebook is geared towards app developers creating Universal Windows apps on both desktop and phone. The SDK supports universal Windows app for Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10. Using this library, you can easily integrate Facebook Authorization, Like, Graph and other Facebook functionality into your app. This library is also fully native so the CLR is not a dependency. Features included are:

Authorization

Login

Logout

Login Button

Profile Picture control

Dialogs

Feed dialog

Request dialog

Graph

Custom Stories

Post to user’s feed

Upload Photo

Like a Page/Object

Where to Get the SDK

The SDK can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft/winsdkfb.
If you are developing a universal Windows app for Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 and are currently using the Facebook .NET SDK (http://facebooksdk.net/), we recommend that you evaluate the new Windows SDK for Facebook for use in your app. The new Windows SDK features are listed on GitHub.

This new SDK carries forward the most popular capabilities of the existing .NET SDK. Should you identify any key features missing, please submit a feature request on the Windows SDK for Facebook GitHub repo.

Compilation Instructions

Compilation instructions for Windows apps are on the GitHub repo.

App Samples

Also included are sample projects that show how to integrate this library into your app. The sample projects show how to:

Log in

Display user information

Post to user timeline via feed dialog

Launch app request dialog to send requests to friends

Display the list of user’s likes

We have multiple samples on the GitHub repo. Below are some code snippets in C# and C++ showing how to do a login and get a user’s likes.

(see code at source below)

We’d like to encourage you to try the Windows SDK for Facebook. And, if you have suggestions for other open source projects that would help you make great apps, please let us know in the comments. For more information about Microsoft’s involvement with open source, check out these sites:

https://msopentech.com/

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/com...ource-software

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Source: Windows SDK for Facebook | Building Apps for Windows

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