Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience
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Hello
Ive put windows admin center on two computers here. One a vm I have setup just for sysadmin use. the other on my own workstation. The vm is using its share of 24C E5 Xeons and an 8 spindle chunk of a Raid10. My workstation is an i7 2700k from a while ago and has an ssd.Generally I like what MS is doing here. I really like the remote desktop and powershell abilities.
I am just wondering how you all feel about it. How is the performance of this? The only gripe I have right now is that it takes a lot of spinning dots in a circle time to get the different views of a computer populated. Then more dots as you go through the options.
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I have it installed on a dedicated server VM, and use it daily for many tasks (my main work PC is Fedora, so it helps a lot).
It performs well, and I am very happy with it. Of course, it'll be even better when it can do more.
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I keep many of the Windows servers added to it, and the Hyper-V hosts. One of our hosts has 60+ VMs and it handles that well. It feels the same as if there were 1 VM to manage, so size doesn't seem to matter when open in WAC.
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My gripe is the number of times you need to put in a username/password. Other than that, I have no complaints of the features so far.
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@obsolesce said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
My gripe is the number of times you need to put in a username/password. Other than that, I have no complaints of the features so far.
Oh that's likely because youre using Fedora, which doesn't have Edge.
On Win10 with Edge, i never get prompted. edit: Not never, just once a day.
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@momurda said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
@obsolesce said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
My gripe is the number of times you need to put in a username/password. Other than that, I have no complaints of the features so far.
Oh that's likely because youre using Fedora, which doesn't have Edge.
On Win10 with Edge, i never get prompted.Are you logged on with domain admin rights or something?
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@jaredbusch I set my Manage As username/pw as a domain admin. It lasts for the session. So once a day i have to enter them or more if i close Edge.
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@momurda said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
@jaredbusch I set my Manage As username/pw as a domain admin. It lasts for the session. So once a day i have to enter them or more if i close Edge.
Ah, once a day is not never. SO yeah, I can get behind that.
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@obsolesce said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
My gripe is the number of times you need to put in a username/password. Other than that, I have no complaints of the features so far.
OMG, it's INSANE.
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@momurda said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
@obsolesce said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
My gripe is the number of times you need to put in a username/password. Other than that, I have no complaints of the features so far.
Oh that's likely because youre using Fedora, which doesn't have Edge.
On Win10 with Edge, i never get prompted. edit: Not never, just once a day.I'll have to check. But we run it from Windows, and I thought it was on Edge, and did the same thing. Easily 10+ times entering username/password to do almost anything.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
@momurda said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
@obsolesce said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
My gripe is the number of times you need to put in a username/password. Other than that, I have no complaints of the features so far.
Oh that's likely because youre using Fedora, which doesn't have Edge.
On Win10 with Edge, i never get prompted. edit: Not never, just once a day.I'll have to check. But we run it from Windows, and I thought it was on Edge, and did the same thing. Easily 10+ times entering username/password to do almost anything.
I used it on Edge in Windows too, I think it prompts there too, but not as much.
I did look for certificate based authentication, but didn't' find any option for that except via Smartcard.
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@obsolesce said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
@momurda said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
@obsolesce said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
My gripe is the number of times you need to put in a username/password. Other than that, I have no complaints of the features so far.
Oh that's likely because youre using Fedora, which doesn't have Edge.
On Win10 with Edge, i never get prompted. edit: Not never, just once a day.I'll have to check. But we run it from Windows, and I thought it was on Edge, and did the same thing. Easily 10+ times entering username/password to do almost anything.
I used it on Edge in Windows too, I think it prompts there too, but not as much.
I did look for certificate based authentication, but didn't' find any option for that except via Smartcard.
And once in a while, we get boxes that it can't manage, with no explanation. Just... doesn't connect.
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I have liked it so far in Google Chrome, very easy to use. The prompts for remote desktop yes kinda of annoying but I can live with it.
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@momurda i have it installed on a workstation and i like it. its not great for everything but it works. the powershell works fine. occasionally it doesnt connect to something but ive found that winrm isnt set up on remote machine. i never have to re-login unless i restart my machine so maybe every few days i guess.
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@scottalanmiller The most login prompts are using it in Chrome.
Chrome has a bug regarding the websockets protocol and NTLM authentication. This effects the following tools: Events, PowerShell, Remote Desktop.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423609
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@romo said in Windows Admin Center, who uses it? Your experience:
@scottalanmiller The most login prompts are using it in Chrome.
Chrome has a bug regarding the websockets protocol and NTLM authentication. This effects the following tools: Events, PowerShell, Remote Desktop.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423609Ah, good to know. That might exacerbate it.
