Create Servers in the Admin Portal

Create a Server

• Navigate to the Dedicated Server Admin Portal and sign in (only Global Admins can currently sign in to the Admin Portal)

Note: Cross tenant play is currently unavailable. We hope to have this out in the near future! You will see the options to enable it in the Admin Portal where the setting will apply once available.

• Navigate to the Settings page, and set the Allow Servers toggle to the on position
• From either the Home page or the Server List page, click the Add a Server button
• Required settings
  • Enter the IP address where you will run your server - refer to install and run your server for help finding your IP address and port.
    • Note: IPv6 is not supported at this time. 
  • Enter the port that will be used for your server
  • Use the Allow chat toggle to enable or disable chat on the server
  • You can also enable Chat Logging to log all messages sent in the server. 
    • Chat Logs will be saved to /chat_logs/ChatLog_<Date>.txt
    • If you wish to change this setting later, it must be manually updated by changing the chat-logging-enabled in server.properties. The server will need to be rebooted for this to take effect. 

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• World Generation Settings (Optional)
  • Enter a world seed 
  • Select the game mode

• Select which server version you would like to download
  • Configuration file only - this can be used if you are creating or managing your server through scripting
  • Configured Windows server - the downloaded zip file will contain all the files you need to run a Windows server
  • Configured Linux server - the downloaded zip file will contain all the files you need to run a Linux server
• Click the Download button and the zip file will be downloaded to your local machine
• When you see the Download Complete confirmation your server files are ready for installation

• Click the Continue button, and enter your Server information
  • Server Name - the name that appears on the server list in the Minecraft Education client
  • Server Passcode - if you enter a passcode, all players that join the server will be required to enter this passcode
    • Important Note: Passcodes are not passwords, since they are not unique to each user. They are instead unique to each server (or at least should be!). They are viewable to admins and shared by users. For example, a classroom could use a passcode to ensure only that class can get into the server, so long as the passcode is only known to the people in the class.
  • Enabled - determines if players can join the server.  If this is turned off while players are on the server, the server will close and all players will lose access
  • Broadcast - when this is set to the on position, the server will appear in the server list in the Minecraft Education client

• Click Save to save these server settings
• Click Close to close the window 
• Click Remove to remove the server permanently from your tenant
• Follow these instructions to install and run your server.
  • You can skip any instructions on this page about configuring the server, since this step was already done by the Download process.
  • You do not need to go past the section titled "Dedicated server setup and sign-in"
• The Server will remain in Pending status until you install and start the server for the first time.
• If you would like to configure other server settings, refer to the Dedicated Server Tooling and Scripting Guide for information about editing the server configuration file.

Learn how to Manage Servers in the Admin Portal