Windows Admin Center in Azure currently lets IT pros manage Windows virtual machines "using your VM's local administrator password to sign in." Now, with the general availability of Azure Active Directory authentication in Windows Admin Center in Azure, IT shops can use Azure AD credentials to sign into Windows Server virtual machines. Communication between you and your systems is end-to-end encrypted, with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) termination occurring directly on your infrastructure. Traffic is sent over the existing connection between the Azure Arc agent and Azure - no extra configuration is required. It allows you to manage your infrastructure without requiring any public IP addresses, VPNs, or inbound connectivity to your systems. Windows Admin Center in Azure enhances security for your servers and clusters. Here's how Microsoft characterized the benefits back in July: The main benefits of using Windows Admin Center in Azure appear to be that IT pros don't need to remotely access servers. They can also use Windows Admin Center in Azure when managing Windows virtual machines hosted on Azure or Windows virtual machines hosted on premises but managed with Azure Arc (known as "Arc-enabled servers").
To use Window Admin Center in Azure, organizations need to be managing Azure Stack HCI deployments, which is Microsoft's Azure-in-a-box option for customer premises deployments. Azure Arc is Microsoft's multicloud management solution. Microsoft had previewed the ability of Windows Admin Center in Azure to work with Azure Arc-managed infrastructure back in July, Weinert also noted.
Windows Admin Center in Azure was introduced "last year," according to Alex Weinert, director of identity security at Microsoft, in the Thursday announcement. Microsoft has a name for this portal-within-portal approach, namely "Windows Admin Center in Azure." It sounds quite confusing, but Windows Admin Center, Microsoft's browser-based management portal that lets IT pros remotely manage servers, can also be used within the Azure Portal under certain circumstances. Azure Active Directory authentication capabilities for IT pros using the Windows Admin Center in Azure management console are now commercially released at the "general availability" stage, per a Thursday Microsoft announcement.
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