This is where Windows Admin Center (WAC) comes in. Yet remote management of the server was still really difficult. Further, in the 2016 installer, Core became the default and the GUI option (for us Neanderthals) became the “desktop experience” version. But if you don’t have time to sit around all day learning how to do everything from a command prompt because you only manage a few to a few dozen servers (like most of us), it was very inconvenient to be forced to do everything from PowerShell and presented a very steep learning curve.Īll of this really came to a head with the announcement that the Semi-annual Channel for servers was going to be Core only. Yes, PowerShell is a GREAT technology, don’t get me wrong, and if you need large-scale automation, you’re still going to use it for everything. This may be a bit tongue in cheek, but if you’ve been following the most recent years of Microsoft, all new features have been PowerShell only. To be fair, the only way that they were willing to make a GUI is if in the back-end of that GUI it leveraged PowerShell (as this does) but we’ve got a UI!! It’s powerful and can do nearly EVERYTHING to the base OS. This new management tool they’ve created even has a GUI (which seems like a bad word at Microsoft lately). Microsoft, however, has finally listened to our desperate pleas. If you doubt me on this, go pull hardware driver information from a server core box with normal management tools and let me know how that goes for you. It seems that after a decade of low adoption of server core, specifically because managing it was an absolute nightmare (unless you were a large-scale, heavily automated shop). Several of us heard this and immediately thought, “Oh, like Server Manager, MMC, Computer Manager, RSAT, PowerShell, and Server Manager again ….” It’s an old story, however, there’s a trick this time. It’s great, simple, fast, and makes your life much easier. Microsoft has a new way of managing their servers.
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