{"id":552,"date":"2020-02-05T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2022-06-04T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T14:33:26","slug":"windows-admin-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Windows Admin Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Allows remote administration of Windows10 and Server2016 over HTTPS.  A compelling reason to use these OS&#8217;s over older products.  May be a preview, promised win8.1 \/ server 2012r2 not in place yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>more info here https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/windows-server\/manage\/windows-admin-center\/use\/get-started<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Install remotely like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>copy WindowAdminCenter.msi to c:\\share<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Run PowerShell as administrator.  Enter-PSSession -ComputerName (computername)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>msiexec \/i c:\\share\\WindowsAdminCenter.msi \/qn \/L*v log.txt SME_PORT=6516 SSL_CERTIFICATE_OPTION=generate<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Result = <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Processing data for a remote command failed with the following error message: The I\/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the self-signed certificate from M$ Admin Ctr has a lot of trouble with certificate pinning  supported by Chrome, Brave and Firefox<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to change a tcp port or regenerate a certificate here  https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/blog\/change-the-windows-admin-center-certificate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest versions of WAC are missing the ability to do windows updates remotely.  One of the main reasons I was interested in this software.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>more info here   https:\/\/mcpmag.com\/articles\/2019\/02\/05\/windows-admin-center-windows-server-core.aspx?m=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allows remote administration of Windows10 and Server2016 over HTTPS. A compelling reason to use these OS&#8217;s over older products. May be a preview, promised win8.1 \/ server 2012r2 not in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,95,96,3],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-corporate","tag-management","tag-remote","tag-smb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}