{"id":11388,"date":"2019-04-29T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:36:55","slug":"its-time-to-update-your-windows-management-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/its-time-to-update-your-windows-management-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to update your Windows Server management strategy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This blog post was authored by Dianna Marks, Product Marketing Manager, Windows Server Marketing. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019ve been hearing about all the great innovations in Windows Server 2019. We\u2019ve also been working to enhance how we manage your Windows Server environment, and we\u2019ll be showing you more at the upcoming Windows Server Summit 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We know that you need to manage both individual servers and servers at scale. We also know that each customer is at a different stage in their hybrid journey, so we provide scaled management tools centered in on-premises and scaled management tools for hybrid management in Azure. Whatever your management needs are, we have you covered\u2013including patching, backup, monitoring, governing, and automation, or simply managing an individual server remotely on-premises or in Azure. See below to understand how these relate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s drill into each of the three technologies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the exciting innovations in the Windows Server world has been Windows Admin Center. Launched in 2018, Windows Admin Center is an evolution of inbox server tools that is now a browser-based app for managing servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Windows 10 PCs. Its main benefit is that it allows you to manage a single server from a web-based experience. Windows Admin Center has no additional cost for all Windows Server customers and is now managing over 2.7 million nodes, which is pretty amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Windows Admin Center is not intended to replace technologies such as Azure Management and System Center that manage many servers at a time. In fact, one of its best kept secrets is that Windows Admin Center includes hybrid on-ramps to Azure Management for single servers to take advantage of the Azure services for backup with its unlimited storage, or disaster recovery to provide redundancy with your own data center, for patching and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you haven\u2019t seen it, watch the overview of Windows Admin Center<\/a> on Microsoft Cloud’s YouTube page. You can also read the Windows Admin Center blog,”Windows Admin Center 1904 GA update is now available<\/a>Windows servers can be managed in multiple ways based on your need<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWindows Admin Center<\/h3>\n\n\n\n