In this blog post, I will show you all the required steps you need to follow to register your WAC instance with Azure. During this registration, also all the necessary permissions needed to create and manage Azure resources on your behalf will be automatically configured. For this registration, which you only need to do once, your Windows Admin Center gateway requires an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) application ID. First of all, you must register your Windows Admin Center gateway with Azure.

To be able to use these Azure hybrid services within WAC, there are some configuration steps you need to complete.

But next to that it can also be used as a gateway to extend your on-premises servers to the cloud by using all kind of Azure Hybrid Cloud services, like Azure Arc, Azure Monitor or Azure Backup.

Where they not only run their r esources and workloads on-premises in their own data centers, but also in Azure or in other public cloud environments, like AWS or Google Cloud.Īnd this is where Windows Admin Center (WAC) comes into play, because it can not only be used to centrally manage your complete Windows server environment. What we see these days is that more and more companies embrace, public clouds, like Azure, and start working in a hybrid cloud scenario.

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