Just add your Azure AD identity to the Windows Admin Center Administrator Login Azure role-based access control (RBAC) role and get access to the full suite of management capabilities that we provide in the Azure Portal. Regardless of whether your virtual machine is on-premises Active Directory joined, Azure AD joined, or not joined to any domain, Windows Admin Center and Azure AD provide a single sign-on experience. Unlike Windows Admin Center on-premises, Windows Admin Center in Azure features single sign-on using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication to bring you an end-to-end identity experience in the Azure portal. We expect this to reduce the need for you to remote desktop into your virtual machine for administration, simplifying your experience as you deploy and maintain virtual machines with or without a graphical user interface (GUI). With the addition of Windows Admin Center, we have supplemented this great experience with additional capabilities such as an enhanced view of virtual machine usage, performance monitoring, viewing of events, and much more. By default, the Azure portal provides a singular view for virtual machine management and the essential elements to manage your infrastructure. Windows Admin Center in Azure unlocks incredible capabilities for the Azure portal by providing you with an interface to manage your Windows Server Virtual Machines. Why use Windows Admin Center in Azure Simplicity and convenience Today, we are extending the same tooling to your cloud infrastructure with the general availability of Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines. It has grown to provide dozens of experiences that make remote investigation and remediation of your servers as easy as possible.

We’re excited to announce one more capability today.Įver since its release in 2018, Windows Admin Center has become the solution for managing Windows Server infrastructure running on-premises. Whether customers are migrating as is, or modernizing applications, Azure provides more than 200 unique services and capabilities for Windows Server.

As more customers use the cloud for innovation and digital transformation, customers are increasingly migrating their workloads to Azure-as the best destination for Windows Server. For decades, companies of every size have trusted Windows Server to run their mission and business-critical workloads.

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