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As announced few hours ago at Ignite this year Windows Server 2019 will be available this October . But to me my biggest take-away is that Windows Admin Center is been updated to version 1809, to support Windows Server 2019 and Azure hybrid scenarios. Continue reading “How to Upgrade Windows Admin Center with Powershell”
Windows Admin Center is a powerful tool that was Generally available after Easter this year and was presented last year under the code-name Project Honolulu.
Windows Admin Center is a lightweight, browser-based GUI platform and toolbox for IT Admins to manage Windows Server and Windows 10. It’s the evolution of a familiar in-box administrative tools, such as Server Manager and Microsoft Management Console (MMC) into a modernized, simplified, integrated, and secure experience.
Windows Admin Center is a natural evolution from the traditional in-box server management tool when you need to connect via RDP to a server or use MMC, RSAT(Remote Server Administration tools) / Server Manager to a Modern web app. The benefit of deploying WAC on your environment is that will help you manage windows machines (server/computers) on-premises or Azure cloud VMs.
Continue reading “How to deploy Windows Admin Center on Windows Server 2016 Core with Powershell”
If not well designed or managed, User and Administrator privilege separation for users/system administrators on a Windows OS can be painful for both sides. Indeed, Windows OS doesn’t have a simple and neat management like a SUDO on Linux OS, but settings need to be tailored with GPO or at least with different users.
Regular user accounts (e.g. Domain Users) should not be a member of the local administrators group for a security point of view.
Using separate users: a standard one and an admin member of the local administrators group is at least a good way to mitigate the risk of potential/malicious/accidental damage to the system. It doesn’t matter if most of the today’s threats can deal with the regular user context.
Nothing new if you’re familiar with the least privilege access, if is something you’ve never think about it… Well, I can use a simple effective analogy for allowing user with local admin rights on their workstation.. it’s like to let them run with the scissors all the time… is it worthy or simply asking for trouble?
Continue reading “How To Create a Local Admin Account with Powershell”
There are times where small and simple things can have big impact for a larger audience, one example is implementing a Text To Speech function. Users want to interact with machines in a smarter and meaningful way, the biggest challenge is for developers and engineers to meet that expectation integrating those features in their solutions.
We always give for granted that notifications are visual and users are always staring in front of a monitor waiting for a pop-up window or a new line on the cli to check progress or output of a repetitive operation.
But I think that in many cases text to speech is a good way getting user attention or providing useful instructions. So let’s dive into..
Continue reading “Powershell: Text To Speech in 3 lines of code”