Oh Number five, baby, we're tied up now. We got like 30 seconds and we're time. Oh Man, we're starting off with a new video today Everybody say and bring dad back in the comments. So we're doing it today, right? So what are we doing today? I stopped over there got me an iced coffee with a turbo shot in it So you can take a turbo butt whooping today on the lake 1v1 fishing challenge guys We're doing a 1v1 today. So me versus him. I picked out a few ponds on on the map I've never been to him before let me get out of this car's way never been to him before so we're gonna try somewhere new I don't even know fast fishing it so we're gonna try it But if it doesn't then we're gonna do a new one what we're doing today We're gonna twist on it. We're doing the lottery ticket fishing challenge the second one I've done one before we're doing the second one today We're gonna do a lot more you guys tore it up you guys loved it So we're gonna do it add a little twist of my dad's work this if I catch a fish I can't touch it You're gonna have to stand beside me while whooping If you guys didn't know my dad's seriously allergic to fish You're gonna have to take my fish off the hook and take a butt whooping all in the same day All right, I'm gonna make him film it too. All right. Yeah, he's actually allergic to fish guys So he could not he seriously can't touch your fish He it came in splash on so we do have to be careful I haven't really gone palm fishing with you yet and we go fishing on the lake So it's easier, but we're going palm fishing today So it's gonna be I don't know it's gonna be different. So we're gonna go do this right now We're running into Walmart because he wants to grab some flukes and I don't have any So we're gonna go grab those right now, and then we're gonna hit the pommelets. Let's run inside All right, dad, what's your picking out man, there's some are they on regular foods He's already lost He's just lost I mean they got they got the small ones, but they don't actually know that's some regular ones I mean you'll still catch them on No, there's a word and you could catch them on that There's a little baby Kravya using the swim bait video freaking killed it on that thing I'm a believer in this $1 swim bait. There's the net, man. I don't know who that is It's how we're gonna go with let me see let me see the colors Diagonal on that watermelon seed Smoking Chad for smoking your butt. Oh Bring it back to old days Bring it back to old days Everybody's asking about it, aren't they? That's kind of crazy As you guys know First step to this challenge is obviously to go buy the lottery tickets. So that's what we're about to go do right now We're both gonna be throwing $20 in to buy in lottery tickets How this is gonna work is we're gonna go buy them then we're gonna go fish 1v1 fishing challenge whoever wins gets to scratch Off the lottery tickets at the end of the video and then we're gonna be going the best pro and spending some money on some We're about to video inside here. I don't know how that's gonna go, but we're gonna do it So we have $40 we're each throwing 20 in at it. I gotta get my wallet. Hold on As I'm broke with all once hold on Make it rain This is from the vending vending machine guys. That's what Noah does late night right there the snacks are in the back So we got gonna pay an old one. That's all I got. I might have to I'm gonna just have to throw a 20 back in this I literally don't have any cash. I didn't think about this. In fact, I do have a 20. You don't have to do that I was just always to time just flaunt my stripper money Look at the B central to this thing Oh, they got a lottery machine now You want to be in the video That went a lot smoother than I was expecting Yeah, four right there. These are called fabulous fortunes went up to a million dollars All right, cool. Well, we're not gonna scratch these off right now these go to the winner Both through in $20.   You gonna buy million dollars in baits?  We'll figure it out, but let's go fishing man Well, we just got to our first location we got a tire pulls up So we're about to get in the back of my truck tie that up and get out to this pond It's a little neighborhood pond. I've never been here before it's actually perfect because I'm kind of out of people's way I'm in this cul-de-sac. There's like not a house right here. So it's perfect. I can park and go fishing right there Hopefully there's some fish in here pond actually was kind of juicy is really small So it works because my dad is allergic to fish after take his fish off the hook It'd be perfect if we stay close to each other honestly so we can pretty much film the whole thing But man, this is gonna be fun Be sure to smash the like button on this video if you guys want to see more like this Especially with my dad one of you one challenges lottery ticket challenges, man, let's go ahead and tie up our rods Yeah, yeah Oh What's going on about to open my bag? You don't know it's about to hit him. What is that all right open up a can of what it's all right All right, everyone rigging up right now. So show me what you got man Show show me show me your juice because I got my secret bait with me So I don't know I don't have my I don't think it can I got was secondary But I got a little flute going on right there case that don't work I got a little fish head in my pocket and I got the crawl that I bought So just give it a shot. I don't even know how to spell fish. I don't know if I can catch one So yeah, this is what I got on so pretty much. I know I've been talking about this speed crow That's my juicy bait right there I can really just working on the bottom in the middle or on top I got it out of this little fishing box my secret fishing box You guys can go check out that video if you want and I do not know where my pack went I was using yesterday. So I got these rage tails in the same color. This is actually black and red It's perfect for dirty water and it's really a good target for a top water bait in general If I'm gonna reel this at the top of the water I'm saying top water bait because I am gonna try to reel this at the top and catch a lot of fish because I do I mean that is just juicy, but we're gonna get out there one-to-one fishing challenge the lottery ticket challenge Let's get it Well, it sounds like somebody's cutting their grass. So that's just gonna be perfect on our audio for us You got him? Is he a big one? Oh, he spit it! I got a solid hook set on him. Yeah, you did Dang, dude. You got a bite out there, man. That was actually like a two-pounder too. It wasn't too bad That wasn't a bad fish You got him. Oh my gosh. Is he a big one?   There you go first fit. Look how that's a healthy fish.  Yeah, he's dark from all this grass But man, that's the first fish of the day. There's a second bite on the fluke I told him I'm about to tie on me a little chatter bait. You got this wind Starting to put a little ripple on the water. They're probably gonna start biting Man, that's a pretty good fish. It's good. Bring dad back. Put it in the comments Hashtag bring dad back. If we still didn't get the likes on the prank video So if we get a lot of likes, he said he's gonna prank me. Look at that guys. Pretty fish Let's uh, let's get a release on this guy Yeah, he can't he literally can't touch them guys There he goes Well, my dad's got one fish. I got zero I had one on my dad had another one on so there's fish in this pond But we couldn't get any more bites. I mean we had some bites this would not stay pinned up So we're heading to our next location. I've been to this pond once before I've caught one or two fish there But heck we're gonna go try it. Let's see what we can do We see we see what we can throw it together. We're just gonna go hit a few places and hey, let's go see There he is up on the board man up on the board He does get me in size now.  I haven't really been here in a while. I've only caught a few fish here But just good to see some activity. It was getting a little stale for a little bit We've been fishing for like 15 20 minutes and nothing but one-on-one. We both have one So we're tied up. We're gonna be traveling to a new pond soon But I guess we should throw here for a little bit since I just caught this one. Let's get a release on There you go, buddy Hey walk over in this corner walk up to the right. Keep pressure though man. He's got whatever though. Are you sure you're not just on a tree? All right, keep walking keep walking in that You still fell him on there. Well guys, yeah, he had a line. I thought he had a fish I thought I had a fish. Toad when I looked up his line. It looked like a fish was running What happened was when he hooked the line it just took off like down the line so look at the fish was just tugging I thought he had like a ten pounder for a minute.  We're at a half time man. What's going on? Should I use Summercrawl or black and red Noah? I'm gonna use black and red. I got a pack in the front if you want it You're using black and red? Yeah, you can try the summercrawl if you want. It's actually pretty clear out here I'm not knowing. It's pretty clear. So I mean you should be good with either one either one You're gonna catch fish. So here's the deal. It's half time. It's one to one This is the deal breaker. How long are we gonna go? You gonna put a time limit on or we just go fishing to see you catches or you gonna keep going till midnight Till you beat me or how's this gonna work?  So this is what's gonna happen people We have 30 minutes 30 minutes. 30 minutes. Wait a minute. I'm on your home lake I'm never fished here before. You already know where all the fish is. I think I should get a handicap We're both using the seeker bait. All right, which is the Texas rig except we're coming for Hcrawl Maybe those paddles will work even better. Maybe we'll end up whacking them. We're gonna come out here We're doing a 30 minute little speed challenge right here. This is how many fish we were one to one right now So it's even so you know whoever catches the most here is gonna win We're gonna see what's happening, but we're putting 30 minutes on it So no matter what happens we have to we have to stop at that 30 minute mark So we're gonna go out to this pond and see what we can do and I'm gonna tie me on a little Texas rig Let's go ahead Let's go ahead What do you got on right now? I'm putting on a Texas rig. So you have a chatter bait on right now. I have a chatter bait on right now And you're gonna tie this on? Yeah, I'm gonna tie a Texas rig. All right, so he already caught one. He locked the scissors in his truck. This is unfair This he catches one first cast All right, man, I was about to tell you you locked your scissors in the car. He's cheating already He's cheating already by being out here.   You're good. Yeah, you're all right I'm doing it for you YouTube.  All right. Don't cast yet. Give me a second Let me go retie look at him cheating. We're all right. Where's my scissors? All right. You got him on ground I'll be back. I ain't run it. Listen.   Oh No, you got a one. Oh snap He's got two now. Oh snap Is getting real I don't know I think Duncan don't know since he's a sponsor is have to be sat there and talked about that turbo shot And he's acting like a maniac He's got two now, so that's three to one. I got to catch me one.  They see you He's done so man or he's just got yeah, never mind. He's got about a pound of salad on him Really right over the top. He destroyed it. Well, that's fish number two for me.  There we go I'm catching up, baby Now we just gotta figure out how to get all this junk off Just bring him over here. I'm right here Man, it's crazy allergic to fish. You just try to grab them Well, baby guy got a thing. It's tiny. I don't even think this one counts thing. You got three and a half Now it's two to four. Oh, no, I'm fishing right next to you. Lower your rod real quick. Watch this I'm gonna teach you something right here You know, there's always a fish that lives There's a fish that lives literally right here that I always miss just about right here if he'll bite You probably You don't want you don't All right, it's three to four now. I just fished right next to you. I said, let me show you something real quick So I thought yeah Just straight up. Let me show you something Oh my god, oh We are tied right now Uh-huh. That's four four.  So I know Ain't no cheating now. There we go. That's fish number four. You hear that guy's fish number four.  Oh my gosh guys. Don't take offense to that. I don't want to hear the haters in the comments I did not mean to do that. That just happened. He's back in the water. He's okay. We're gonna go catch another fish He's got one. Oh my gosh, literally right You need to be careful that you don't break my rod now. He's got he's got five. I got four But literally back to back. I think we found the fish because it's Turn this way. We're in the shade. We're in the shade But man, look how small your fish is. That's no bigger than man. They call me daddy van van go Fish number five, baby. We're tied up now. Oh my god. He's got number six What is going on? We tie up for two seconds. So he's got six. I got five I got to beat him out. We only have a few minutes left. Oh my gosh. My hook just fell out So this is fish number five. I don't know. Mine's a little bigger now Oh, come on. That's what we can tell him off. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is my fish number five This is his fish number six. We got a few minutes now And I got to catch up. I got to catch one more and pray that he doesn't catch another There he is A six a six a six. All right, baby. That's six right there. We got a few minutes. Let's see what we can do Gosh guys, we got like literally 30 seconds And we're tied so What in the world? I don't know what we're going to do about that. We're freaking tied Come on fish. I need one more bite One more bite. Literally one more bite. There's so many in here too. Oh, there's a timer That is it as a 30 minutes. We freaking tied Oh my gosh Let's go find my dad. Let's go get him Well people I thought I was going to whip him man, but wait a minute. Don't ever think you're going to count me I thought I was going to whip you 100%. I'm sorry. I was never gonna have a big boy But listen, we tied. All right. We tied. So this is what we're going to do all the way down to the timer All the way down to the timer.  We both caught six at this place and one of the other so we had seven total So we tied well, I believe I had more weight. This is what we're going to do He's got to go to work. All right. He's got to go to work So we can't finish off this video today. So I'm going to catch you guys Where we're actually going to spend the money for the lottery tickets at bass per shops And go head off again to the same pond With the bass that we bought and see who wins the challenge But we are going to scratch these off right now What I'm going to do is we're each going to get hashtag bring dad back put it in the comments down here We're each going to get two of these. All right, some real fun today. Each going to get two of these right here We're about to scratch these off and see how much we win and then we're going to go Like I said tomorrow pick whose tickets. Guess what? What do you mean? Well, you get to pick the tickets. What do you mean pick the tickets? You just took two Yeah, I mean the ram. I know you're on camera and everything man, but did you just blow one? How would I how would I like trick him into this? How would I trick you?   So we're about to scratch these bad boys off right now You're going first You're going first. So pretty much you're going to scratch off all these numbers right here on both of these And you're going to try to match these numbers to those simple as that. So go ahead. Sorry All right, did you win anything? I'll see let's see what you want. So he literally just won a ticket Oh, oh you won ten dollars. All right 38 10 bucks. Yeah, come on big money. Come on big money Danny needs new shoes 38 10 bucks again. You want 20 bucks? I want 20 bucks. Yeah, see I told you All right, man.  Oh, no, that ain't no good. Hold on Let me help you this let me help this guy He just drove off with the nozzle still in the gas tank I've never actually seen anybody do something like that. I just think you got too excited when I gave him the cheese He gave him some free cheeses and he got so excited. He forgot he was pumping gas He he he You mean to tell me you just took those lottery tickets that you tried to give me I made you take them back and you zeroed out Today's dad's day. All right, so you guys know what to do Be sure to hit that like button if you guys want to see more lottery ticket challenges But guess what this one's not over yet. You have to check out episode two We're gonna go to bass pro buy baits with this money. I guess I hopefully wins off that one ticket We got $20. We got $20. All right, and then we'll probably spend a little bit extra Who knows we're gonna go take that money and then we're gonna extend the challenge at the same pond and see what wins But thank you guys so much for watching Be sure to hit that little bell and also hit the subscribe button and I'll catch you all in the next video Hashtag bring that back Cook every day I get money every day


Right, okay, we're in. So welcome to the latest episode of From the Rock to the Cloud. As you know, we talk all things Windows Server, specifically discussing exciting topics around our technology that basically most of us didn't even know existed. So yeah, we're going to talk all about something very exciting today. And as always, we've got a very, very special guest. My guest today just found out she grew up on a farm and she's got an amazing tractor tattoo which has just blown me away. Not many people with a tractor tattoo. So she's really, really special and also probably slightly bonkers to put a tractor tattoo on her arm, but the fair play. So we've got Sarah with us, Sarah Lean. So Sarah, you're all the way up in Glasgow, aren't you? How are you getting on today? I'm good. Thanks. Thanks for that introduction, Tom. Yeah, I'm sorry, I apologize. I try to embarrass people as much as possible. It's the time for a whole, whole chat. So Sarah, today we're going to talk about the excitement of Windows Admin Center, which is quite a new sort of innovation. WAC WAC, as it's known. So we're going to talk WAC or we're not going to talk WAC, but we're going to talk about WAC today. So Sarah, do you want to just give the audience a little introduction to yourself that's a bit better than mine and just so that we know who you are and why you're qualified to talk to us about WAC today? Yes, so my job at Microsoft is as a senior cloud advocate, which means I help the community understand our technologies and also try and fix some of the issues that you might have. So I'm based in the Azure engineering team. So any of the feedback that you have, I push back to the engineering team and then act as that conduit as well. But before I did this role, I was dyed in the wool, sysadmin, IT Pro used to fight with servers, used to fight with those horrible little server caged nuts and lose blood and sleep over all of that fun stuff. So I've been on that kind of journey from that sysadmin person to someone that looks at the cloud and somewhere in the middle, I think is a nice sweet spot with where I am at, to be honest, Tom. Tom? Cool. Well, I always love talking to people who actually know their shnees, which is brilliant, like I love that. So I'm really, really looking forward to today's topic, which is Windows Admin Sensor. So let's jump right into that. And hopefully, at the end of this episode, no one's putting in the comments that that work. Well, maybe they should say it was WAC. Do you know what I mean? Like fingers crossed. Fingers crossed, people understand the real meaning of WAC after we've had our chat today. So what is Windows Admin Sensor? So Windows Admin Sensor is a GUI-based, browser-based platform where we can do things with Windows Server. So we can do those tasks that we have to do every day, whether it be check event logs, delete or renew certificates, a whole bunch of tasks basically within the Windows Admin Center. So it's a tool set to help you manage your Windows servers. Okay. And it's GUI? Yes. So it's graphical user interface-based. So it's point and click, Tom. So I love that because I'm not a coder. I can't code to save myself. Yeah. So yeah, point and click. Always great. Okay. So nothing to do with Slimer and Ghostbusters. That's fine. It's a graphical interface that people can just use point and click. Got it. Sweet. So it's a GUI interface.  What's the significance of it? Like, why have we done this? Why have we made this Windows Admin Sensor? What's the benefit? So it's kind of a modernization of the tools that we're used to. So if you've ever used an MMC snapping, so the Microsoft Management Console or the RSAT tools, so the Remote Server Admin tools, I think that's what that meant. People know that they're great tools, but they are a bit clunky and you often have to open multiple Windows all the time in order to manage multiple servers. And I definitely got confused back in the day and sometimes maybe stopped the wrong service on the wrong box. But what the Windows Admin Sensor does is just modernize those tools. It's not entirely a replacement, Tom. There's still some things you'll need to use the MMC snappings for. But the Windows Admin Sensor is the modernized tool. And it can manage your servers regardless of where they are. So they could be on-prem. They could be physical. They could be virtual. They could live in Azure. They could live in other cloud providers. As long as the tool can get access to them on the various different ports that it uses, then you can use this regardless. Cool. So it's basically just an upgraded way of doing the traditional management of single servers, but putting it all into one place. Cool. So something like that is expensive. Is it not expensive? Well, it was, you know, one of the charging people for that. This is entirely free. The only, well, when I say free, you do have to have a Windows Server license or a Windows 10 license. But obviously, if you're looking to manage Windows servers, you've got a Windows Server license, hopefully. So it's completely free if you already have an existing server license or a Windows 10 license. So it's a great addition to your tools. So Microsoft is giving free goo. That's whack. Sorry. I couldn't help it. I couldn't help it not to get it. Sorry. I apologize. I couldn't help myself. So once you've got, sorry, once you've got your Windows Admin Sensor set up, can you extend that? You mentioned third parties or other, you know, other things that you can, not just Windows Server, you can manage other things. Can you get third parties support for it? Like, how does that work? So, yes, you can have what we have called extensions within it. And we have several of our hardware vendors who have created extensions. So people like HP, Fujitsu, Data On, have got extensions that you can help manage some of your hardware as well, which is great. But there's also an SDK available.  So if there's something that the tool doesn't do right now, you can actually build on that ecosystem. And you can contribute that either just internally yourself. So you can build that extension for internal use, or you can actually contribute it to the, the fuller ecosystem and share it with everybody. So there's extendability there if you want to try and build on this tool. So the team are very encouraging for those third party extensions to be built. Sweet. It sounds like we've actually moved a massive step forward in the last few years, but we're starting to think about everything working together and being connected, which is kind of, you know, I'm, I'm learning as we're talking. So this is great. So it just means that like Windows Admin Center is that kind of that one place where, you know, everybody can just pull in all their resources and make it work. Now I've heard that Windows Admin Center uses PowerShell under the hood. First of all, what's this hood that everybody talks about? And that's question one. But then actually, can you use these, you know, can I see these scripts actually working and how, and how it uses them? You know, that's the, I suppose, the question. But first of all, what's this hood? Tell me about the hood. Yeah. So it's really just behind the scenes, Tom. So as we said, it's a graphical user interface. So it's point and click, but behind the scenes is using PowerShell and things like HTTPS, WinRM, WMI queries. So yes, you can actually see some of these PowerShell scripts that you can take and leverage for something else or use them as inspiration to put together your own PowerShell scripts if you need to. So yeah. And do you want me to actually show you this? Do you want me to give you a demo of what Windows Admin Center is and take you through some of this? Well, so you're going to show me under the hood? Well, I'll show you how to use Windows Admin Center. I'll show you some of the awesome features that you talked about. Let's go crazy. Let's do this. Right. Awesome. So here I am in my Windows Admin Center and it's browser based. So I'm looking at a bunch of servers that I have. So I'm managing six or seven servers here. These servers all live in my office. So they're all within a hardware environment here in my office. But you can see I can, I have a list of those servers. I don't have to remember the IP addresses. I don't necessarily even need to remember the server names or even log in to these servers with the password. So the password is kind of stored in Windows Admin Center when you set it up. And then you can start to manage these servers. So I think it's pretty cool. I've been able to do this. As I said, you can manage your servers, whether they're physical hardware, whether they're based on-prem or in the cloud. Now, if we connect to one of these servers, we can start to see what's happening within this server. So once it loads up, we have the overview of what's happening in the server. So we've got like the server name, we've got the operating system version. We've kind of got that task manager view of what's happening to the CPU and the memory, things like that. So it gives us an overview of what's happening to that server without actually connecting into that server via like an RDP tool. Now, the power is down the left hand side of this tool though. So we can see all the different things that you can interact with the server. So again, like I was saying earlier, if you want to check on a certificate, if you want to import a certificate, export a certificate, you can have a look at all of this. You have that same interface. You can interact with the server through Windows Admin Center. So yeah, it's a familiar and easy to understand kind of platform. As you can see, it kind of looks like even server manager that you get on Windows Server. So it's an easy one, I think, to learn and get used to and interact with. We've got obviously network adapter. We can go in and change things here. Probably wouldn't change the IP address remotely. You probably want to actually log on to the box and be there when you're doing it. But you have that interactivity with it. You've also got things like settings. So it uncovers some of your settings as well. So if you wanted to change the power configuration of your server or if you wanted to enable or disable remote desktop, you have that power here as well. So you can see it's quite intensive, and there's quite a lot of features that are serviced up within it. Now, when I talked about the extensions, we do have a plethora of extensions within here. Now, some of them come pre-installed for you. Some of the default ones that you would maybe expect to see. But as you can see here, we have a list of ones that we have, even like we've got the Dell ones. We've got HPE ones. And you can add in obviously your own ones. If you wanted to install an extension that wasn't already installed, it's really easy to do. All you do is find the extension that you want to install from the list. So in this case, I'm going to look at containers. So I click on containers, and then I click on install. And what Windows Admin Center will do is go and find that file or the configuration that needs to download, install that extension. It will refresh itself automatically for you. You don't have to do anything. And then when we start to go back into our servers, if we have a look here, what we'll see is we now have that container blade surfaced up within our server. So we can click on containers. And then we can start to actually do containers. So if you wanted to install containers on this server, it would actually help you walk through that process and have a look at it all. Now, you asked me about the PowerShell scripts. If you click the little PowerShell icon in the top right-hand corner, it will actually surface up all the scripts. And you can see from the list here, we've got a bunch of scripts available. So there's lots there within there. So you can take those scripts, you can copy them, you can paste them, you can change them, you can take them elsewhere. But that's really under the hood, as you said, Tom. So yeah, hopefully that's kind of given you a quick overview and made some more sense of what's actually happening with Windows Admin Center and what I'm talking about. Wow. It's actually incredibly simple interface. I'm super impressed. No, so thanks for showing us that. Everyone's favorite subject when it comes to technology is security. How does Windows Admin Center help with security, I suppose, across an estate of multiple servers, whether they be in the cloud or on-prem? How does it handle that? So it uses HTTPS technology to do that talking, if you want to call it that. Also, as I said, it uses PowerShell, it uses WMI queries over WinRM. We have support for LAPS, which is the local admin password solution. And we have access control based on Active Directory or Azure Active Directory as well. So there's lots of security built in there depending on what aspect of security you're actually concerned about. But yeah, it's built with security in mind, to be honest, Tom. Brilliant. That always gives people a little bit of peace of mind, which is good to know. And so we're talking a lot now, as the world's getting more complicated, we're talking about hyperconverged infrastructure. So can I manage a hyperconverged infrastructure with Windows Admin Center? That's, I suppose, a question that some people might want to know. Yeah, so if you're running that on a Windows Server 2016 box or a 2019 box, absolutely, you can use your HCI interfaces there as well and manage that as well. And when we look to some of the newer technology we've just released, so Azure Stack HCI, you actually have the power within Windows Admin Center. So when you look at Azure Stack HCI, Windows Admin Center is built into that admin experience for you. So if you're going to use that, if you're going to deploy that, then you'll have to get familiar with Windows Admin Center, because those kind of two technologies are based together. So yeah, the HCI piece is absolutely something that we can support and do. Brilliant. And so do you need Windows Admin Center or does it require System Center to work? Is that the two links? What's the story there? So I'm often asked this. A lot of customers have used System Center, the various different platforms around there, and they're great tools, but they're not a replacement. Windows Admin Center does not replace any of your System Center tools. They complement each other, so you can use them side by side, but they're definitely not a replacement. One is not a replacement for the other. Okay, that's cool. And when some people are looking into Admin Center, there's a couple of versions out there. There's, I suppose, the full flavor version, and then there's also a preview version, where people might have come across a preview version. What is the difference? Which one should I use? So when you look at Windows Admin Center, like you said, we have the GA version, which is the generally available version. And that's the production ready environment that is the fully supported, fully stable environment. So you can use that with production support in mind. And the team, if you have any issues, then you can log a support call and things like that. When you look at the preview version, what it's allowing you to do is a crystal ball almost into the future. So the team will use the preview to show you features that they're potentially developing, so that they can get feedback from yourself or features that they have been developing and are almost ready to go into production. But it's that last stage of testing, they're trying to battle harden those new features. So the preview feature is something you could run. Obviously, I always say with preview features, to be honest, is be mindful that they are preview, so they might be buggy, they might be unstable, and they might not even release some of the features that are in a preview to production. So don't get too attached to things within preview. And if you are using a preview feature, I always say give feedback back as well, because that's why we have the feedback functionality within sort of the preview features, because we want feedback from our customers, our audience, we want to understand if they're the right things that we're going down, if there's additional features. So it depends on your appetite for risk a wee bit, to be honest, Tom. If you're happy using something that isn't fully productionized and could be buggy and might give you some issues. I'll use the normal version, I'll use the normal version there. So yeah, but either could be run, just be aware that obviously the full fat kind of general available version is production ready, whereas the preview one might not be fully production ready. Okay, that's, it's funny, I'm seeing there's a theme coming through here. We talked to Thomas as well, who I know, you know, and he was talking about wizards.  I just kind of see all of this stuff as like magic. Do you know what I mean? And it just works, which I love. So sorry, tenuous link. But say I can use Windows Admin Center with Azure. Is that possible as well? Can I just use it with Azure? Like, what's, like, what's the whole tie in with the, because I'm on-prem, I'm managing my servers, but I might want to use some Azure resources, right? So that's the kind of even more magic. How does that work? Yeah, so I think a lot of customers are looking towards potentially leveraging parts of Azure to maybe enhance some of their on-prem environment. So they want to have a management tool that can do both, right? No one likes to use multiple management tools, Tom. We all hate that. We want to get away from that kind of world. And Windows Admin Center is built with that kind of hybrid solution in mind. So what you can do is use some of the tools within Azure to manage your Windows servers. So say, for example, updates. So everyone has to apply updates to the Windows servers. You can manage the Azure updates. We love updates. That's a magic word we don't mention. No, no, no. We love updates. We love updates. So that's a prime example. There's a service in Azure called the Azure Update Management Service where you can automate the patching of your servers, which is great. But you can manage that within Windows Admin Center as well. You don't have to go to the Azure portal to do all of that configuration. So yeah, there's definitely a tie in there if you're starting to look at adding features and functionality from Azure to your on-prem environment. Windows Admin Center can help be that conduit to get to that. I can actually show you a demo of us creating an Azure virtual machine from within Windows Admin Center, if you want, Tom. Go for it. Let's do it. I love it when this happens.  So I will say this is a demo because it takes a few minutes to actually do and no one wants to sit and watch a live virtual machine being created.  Yeah, that's cool. Get the crystal ball. So again, we're in the Windows Admin Center console here and I'm just showing you that this is connected to Azure. And basically, I just had to sign in with my username and password to register this Windows Admin Center with my Azure subscription. But as I said, what we can actually do here is create a virtual machine from within Windows Admin Center in Azure. So we can add in here if we go down to the very bottom. And what we'll be walking through as a wizard, Tom, you'll get those questions that you will get when you're creating a virtual machine within Azure. So you'll be asked about the resource group that you want to put this virtual machine in. You'll be asked the name and the region that you want to store this virtual machine in. The same kind of questions you get when you do it within the Windows Admin Portal. So I'm going to build a 2019 data center core virtual machine. I put in my username and password. Hopefully very secure username and password here. I get to choose the size. So I'm just going to pick the smallest size because it's core. So it should run on a very small one here. I also have the option here to actually domain join it. So if you're domain joining your servers, then you can do this from this wizard as well. So it's great from that point of view. And it saves you having to do that manual step yourself. Now it does take a few minutes for this to go and deploy that virtual machine into your Azure environment. But once it's complete, we can actually go into the Azure Portal and start to interact with that virtual machine. Or we can actually add it in here to the Windows Admin Center console and start to manage it just like any other server within our environment. So there you go. That's that virtual machine created. Now what I want to show you is a cool new feature that we have released and it's a preview feature is actually Windows Admin Center built into the Azure Portal. So if you have virtual machines servers within Azure, you can actually use Windows Admin Center to manage it from within the Azure Portal. Now this is a preview feature and it's exciting to see what the team are doing here. But basically if you still have a look at the screen right now, it's identical to what we've just saw that we had on-prem. Now some of the caveats around this obviously are. It's a preview service and the team are trying to look at how it can help people manage their environment and manage their environment from within Azure. What we saw with our Windows Admin Center on-prem was that we had a list of I think it was six or seven servers I was managing at the time. With this extension within the Azure Portal is you're only managing that one server. So you have to enable Windows Admin Center for all of your servers within Azure. So although that's an extra step, an extra hassle as such to be honest, Tom, it does give you that instant feedback from the server. So if you wanted to do something, here I'm modifying my firewall rightly or wrongly. If I needed to do that quickly on an Azure virtual machine and I didn't have my Windows Admin Center console or my laptop with me, I was sitting in a hotel room or whatever, I can do this from within the Azure Portal. So it's very clever that technology that we have and it's nice to see that the team are again extending the tool that we love Windows Admin Center into Azure and vice versa. You know, we saw earlier on in the demo that Windows Admin Center is extending up to Azure as well. So yeah, that's just a little bit of flavor of Azure and Windows Admin Center. No, I love it so. Well, first of all, there's a wizard in that. So I like to see Dumbledore doing a bit of work for us, which is always great. But I, you know, I like seeing that you've shown us a bit of the future, which is actually, this is the, it's the cloud bit talking to the on-prem bit and then the on-prem bit talking to clouds and the two can cross pollinate. And that I suppose is, you know, that's the future for so many people out there, especially when we think about, you know, edge computing workloads and all of this kind of other stuff that is happening right now in the IT world. What we need is a safe place and the space to be able to do these things and work properly. So if the audience out there want to start this journey on, I suppose, their wizard training, they want to find out more about WAC or Windows Admin Center. Where can they go? Where would you advise them to go and start their journey? So I've created a short URL that you can head off to. So if you go to aka.ms slash server dash WAC, so WAC, it will take you through to the Windows Admin Center documentation. You can have a read some of the features that I maybe haven't mentioned today, and you can also download a copy of it as well and have a play with it. Well, I know what I'm going to be doing tonight. I'm going to be all over that WAC. There we are. Right. Okay. So now we move on to the fun part, Sarah. So this is where the fantastic producers of this live stream slash podcast slash chat like to sort of, I suppose, take almost the mickey out of me a little bit, because I don't really know what I'm talking about and they kind of pull that out. So what we do is we have this thing called the server meme review. So they obviously, they're very down with the kids. I've just turned 40, so not too down with the kids. So they like to, they like to poke fun at me. But what they also know is is that because I'm talking to a server expert, you'll get the meme and I won't. So yeah. Well, fingers crossed, fingers crossed. Now, just for the audience, if you've got a meme that you want to send in or you want to leave a comment, make sure you do underneath this video. And right, Sarah, we're going to have a look at the first meme now. And I suppose let's see what they found for us today. Meme number one. It says, good Lord. I have worked in server rooms that look like that. I suppose, like often I suppose people have that person in the business that they think they can fix things and they go into that room and then they start messing around with some stuff. And then that's the result, right? Yep. That's horrible. That's hurting my eyes. And then they call Sarah and they say, Hey, Sarah, then can we, can we move to the cloud? Now that's that really, that is, that is whack. That's that's that's someone's done a terrible job of they know. Even I know that, that your network cable shouldn't be in that sort of condition. So I can appreciate that. Oh yeah, for a fault. Yeah. All right. Okay. Right. Well, let's have a look at the second one. Let's see what the second meme server meme is. Right. Three, two, one. Here we go. Servers down. I should post memes. Is that cat wearing a suit? It looks like it. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah. Well, we've found a meme that basically brings the two most powerful things on the internet servers, because obviously the internet's run by servers and cats, which the two most powerful things on the internet together in one meme. There we are. Have you ever posted a server meme, Sarah? I don't know. Probably not actually. Yeah, I'm not. Yeah, I like looking at memes, but I don't think I post off that many. That's okay. Well, that's your homework for the for this evening. Anyways, to send me send me a meme. Perfect.  Just to recap, we've learned about GUI, which is the graphical interface behind WAC, which is Windows Admin Center. It's completely free, which is, you know, we get few enough free things in this world. And you just need to make sure you've got the right licensing behind your licenses for Windows server, which is pretty straightforward. And it can manage anything, whether it be on-prem or in the cloud, Azure, the whole Kaboodle, Kitten Kaboodle, it does the whole lot. It really is sort of the new hybrid landscape for partners to be able to use and do what they need to do. So, look, Sarah, thank you so, so much for today. Really appreciate your time. And I always, like I said, always love talking to you next, but I'm sure that we're going to, well, hopefully one day we can get up to Glasgow and chat in person. That'd be amazing. But in the meantime, you know, I'm sure there'll be another episode with you on it too. And so we look very much forward to having you again if we can. And if you can spare the time, it's been a pleasure talking to you. So, look, everybody, thanks so much for listening to the episode today. Like I said, we've been very, very lucky having Sarah with us. Keep an eye out for future episodes. And if you've got anything you want us to talk about, let us know. We're really interested to know your thoughts and feedback.  We very much appreciate it. So thanks very much for joining us from the rock to the cloud and look forward to that next episode. Talk to you soon. Cheers. Thanks. Bye.


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