SysAdmin Weekly

054 - Windows Admin Center in 2026: Good Tool, Broken On-Ramp?

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Windows Admin Center is a genuinely useful tool wrapped in an on-ramp so rough it took Andy four hours, a from-scratch certificate authority, and a pile of misleading error messages just to reach the login screen.

Andy rebuilt his lab on an all-Core Windows Server 2025 fleet, set out to manage it from a browser the way Microsoft keeps telling us to, and hit a certificate wall that most…