Installation Windows Admin Center (WAC) on Server Core

Windows Admin Center (WAC) is supported to install into Windows Server 2016 Server Core environment. To install into server core environment, we do the following steps.

1. Log in as administrator.
2. Perform PowerShell into the Command Prompt.
3. Perform Start-BitsTransfer -Source http://aka.ms/WACDownload -Destination C:\WAC.msi to download Windows Admin Center (WAC) to C Drive.

4. Perform exit to back to Command Prompt.
5. Perform msiexec /i C:\WAC.msi /qn /L*v log.txt SME_PORT=443 SSL_CERTIFICATE-OPTION=generate to install Windows Admin Center (WAC) with assigning port 443 for HTTPS connection of the server and generate self-sign certificate for WAC.

6. Perform notepad log.txt to check the log file to make sure installation completed successfully.

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