Now let's take a look at how we can manage these servers in a more secure manner.
And to do this, we're going to look at something called the Windows Admin Center.
Windows Admin Center provides simplicity by having the ability to manage multiple servers from a single
application.
It gives you the ability to integrate your on premise servers with Azure.
In literally just a few clicks, you have the power to leverage Azure for monitoring storage, backup
disaster recovery and more.
You can also extend your on premise deployments of Windows Server to the cloud by making use of Azure
Hybrid Services, which is found in the Windows Admin Center.
It gives you some additional capability for compute file servers and storage, as well as centralized
management for monitoring, threat protection and update management.
Windows Admin Center supports a few deployment options, the first one being a local client.
When you use a local client deployment option.
Essentially you are installing Windows Admin Center on a local Windows ten client that has connectivity
to the managed servers.
This is great for a quick start, testing a dock or small scale scenarios in the demonstration that
would follow.
We will be using the local client deployment option.
Then you have gateway server deployments.
This is used when you install Windows Admin Center on a designated gateway server that can be accessed
from any client browser that has connectivity to the gateway.
This is good for large scale scenarios.
Managed server deployment options entails the use of directly installing the agent on a managed server
for the purpose of managing itself or a cluster in which it is a member node.
This is great for distributed scenarios.
Then we have the failover cluster deployment option.
In this option, you deploy the Windows Admin Center in a failover cluster to enable high availability
of the Gateway Service.
This is used in a production environment to ensure resiliency of your management service.