After installing Active Roles, first you must create the Administration Service instance as described in Configuring the Administration Service. Then, you can use the Configuration Center to:
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View or change the core Administration Service settings, such as the Active Roles Admin account, Active Roles service account, and the Active Roles databases.
For more information, see Viewing the core Administration Service settings and Modifying the core Administration Service settings.
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Import configuration data from another (current version or earlier version) Active Roles database to the current database of the Administration Service. For more information, see Importing configuration data.
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Import Management History data from another (current version or earlier version) Active Roles database to the current database of the Administration Service. For more information, see Importing Management History data.
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Check the state of the Administration Service. For more information, see Checking the state of the Administration Service.
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Start, stop or restart the Administration Service. For more information, see Starting, stopping or restarting the Administration Service.
On the Administration Service page of the Configuration Center, you can check:
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The login name of the Active Roles service account.
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The name of the group or user account that has the Active Roles Admin rights.
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The SQL Server instance that hosts the Active Roles database and the name of the Active Roles database.
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The database connection authentication mode (Windows authentication or SQL Server authentication).
On the Administration Service page of the Configuration Center, you can change:
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The service account. To do so, click Service account > Change. Then, in the wizard that appears, specify the login name and password of the domain user account, or if using a group Managed Service Account (gMSA), the service account details in which you want the Administration Service to run.
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The Active Roles Admin account. To do so, click Active Roles Admin > Change. Then, in the wizard that appears, specify the group or user account you want to have the Active Roles Admin rights.
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The Active Roles database. To do so, click Active Roles database > Change. Then, in the wizard that appears, specify the SQL Server instance and the database you want the Administration Service to use, and select the database connection authentication mode (Windows authentication or SQL Server login). You can also specify a separate database for storing management history data.
The configuration operations available in the Configuration Center are fully scriptable using the Windows PowerShell command-line tools of the Active Roles Management Shell. For more information, see Active Roles Management Shell.
When upgrading the Administration Service, you must import configuration data from the earlier version of Active Roles to the new version of the product. To do so, in the Configuration Center, click Administration Service > Import Configuration, then follow the steps in the wizard that appears. For more information, see Importing configuration data in the Active Roles Upgrade Guide.
During the import operation, the wizard retrieves and upgrades the data from the source database, and replaces the data in the destination database with the upgraded data from the source database.
