Hawaii Live-Go! Microsoft launches Honolulu admin tool for cloud and on-prem Microsoft on Thursday moved its 'Project Honolulu' administration tools into general availability, dubbing the system Windows Admin Center. A web-based system (you'll need either Edge or Chrome), Admin Center bills itself as a 'hybrid IT' management tool capable of handling both on-premise servers and Azure instances, along …
Because it'll have a terrible confusing UI like everything MS has done after Windows 7, I would have thought.
Not been to Honolulu, nor do I feel the need. But both Big Island and Maui are very nice. Very good for the outdoorsy crowd, not at all lounge-on-beach-only.
But, yeah, let's tar n feather a whole state due to a false missile alarm.
Twat.
I'm very much hoping MS has cleaned up its system management cruft, at least for savvy SOHO users. Much needed. Now they need to persevere and fix ONE approach, not act like ADD squirrels on meth who've forgotten their nuts and dig new holes every time. I like the idea of a thin GUI/Web veneer over Powershell to do the work too, separates out GUI from actual system functions.
Was that before or after Azure and Office 365 had a wobbly for most of the day?
You're stretching your definition of 'few', because it hit us too. It was >50% of the working day.
What was that you say, people couldn't reply or receive e-mails and the lack of syncing meant people couldn't collaborate on documents? (Putting aside MS' implementation of collaboration which is a whole other argument you're going to lose as well.)
"Windows Admin Center brings many of these consoles together in a modernized, simplified, integrated, and secure remote management experience."
Except for those it doesn't: "Redmond notes that Admin Center isn't yet a complete replacement, however."
So yet another tool to load up, in another place, slightly different to the other tools. Do any software developers finish anything before release anymore?
The last time Windows truly had a all in one admin single interface for management was just before Exchange 2007. You could have a custom MMC with everything you needed with Mailbox and IM controls on the user account properties in AD.Then Exchange & Lync went to their own Silverlight based management interfaces and suddenly you had to use three interfaces to manage your users. PowerShell, while powerful, is such a god damn awful mess. To get anything useful done the command gets so damn long by the time you use pipe to link three commands together. PS's tab to auto complete is horrible, who ever thought alphabetically cycling the available options was better than presenting all possible options with a double tab Unix style had rocks in their head.
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