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Now let's take a look at how we can manage these servers in a more secure manner.

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And to do this, we're going to look at something called the Windows Admin Center.

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Windows Admin Center provides simplicity by having the ability to manage multiple servers from a single

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application.

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It gives you the ability to integrate your on premise servers with Azure.

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In literally just a few clicks, you have the power to leverage Azure for monitoring storage, backup

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disaster recovery and more.

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You can also extend your on premise deployments of Windows Server to the cloud by making use of Azure

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Hybrid Services, which is found in the Windows Admin Center.

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It gives you some additional capability for compute file servers and storage, as well as centralized

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management for monitoring, threat protection and update management.

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Windows Admin Center supports a few deployment options, the first one being a local client.

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When you use a local client deployment option.

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Essentially you are installing Windows Admin Center on a local Windows ten client that has connectivity

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to the managed servers.

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This is great for a quick start, testing a dock or small scale scenarios in the demonstration that

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would follow.

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We will be using the local client deployment option.

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Then you have gateway server deployments.

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This is used when you install Windows Admin Center on a designated gateway server that can be accessed

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from any client browser that has connectivity to the gateway.

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This is good for large scale scenarios.

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Managed server deployment options entails the use of directly installing the agent on a managed server

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for the purpose of managing itself or a cluster in which it is a member node.

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This is great for distributed scenarios.

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Then we have the failover cluster deployment option.

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In this option, you deploy the Windows Admin Center in a failover cluster to enable high availability

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of the Gateway Service.

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This is used in a production environment to ensure resiliency of your management service.