Microsoft’s Windows Admin Center (WAC) is a useful tool. This access through IP is not allows in IE or edge, so can use Chrome only. In my lab setup, web server is not published to DNS, and hence accessible through only IP. msi package that you can download from this link:Īfter registration on a web form in Microsoft Evaluation Centerįirst step, after setting up Project Honolulu, publishing the web server to DNS and setting up the corporate firewall can allow you to access Honolulu from the public internet, enabling you to connect to, and manage, your servers from anywhere with Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome.

The app and gateway both install from a single lightweight. The gateway manages servers via Remote PowerShell and WMI over WinRM. The app manages Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2012 nodes through the Honolulu gateway that you can install on Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10, in my case Honolulu gateway is installed on Windows 2019 preview. In this howto, provided screenshots for installing Project Honolulu on Windows 2019 server, and adding two Windows 2016 servers ( DC & ADC ) for managing these server resources.

In my lab setup, installed Project Honolulu on Windows Server 2019 Standard ( core only available on Preview release ), and two Windows 2016 Servers node1 and node2 to manage under Project Honolulu. One of our goals with Project Honolulu is to make it simpler and easier to connect existing deployments of Windows Server to Azure services.

Microsoft says Project Honolulu is a flexible, lightweight browser-based locally-deployed platform and a solution for management scenarios. Of them, I am really interested on Project Honalulu, and how it is improved in Windows 2019 as said in Microsoft Windows Server 2019 preview release blog. Microsoft recently announces Windows server 2019 preview with many new features. Edit : Microsoft renames Project Honolulu as Windows Admin Center

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