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Mastering Windows Server 2019, Third Edition - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078313
Pages 690 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Author (1):
Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
Profile icon Jordan Krause

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2019 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2019 3. Active Directory 4. DNS and DHCP 5. Group Policy 6. Certificates in Windows Server 2019 7. Networking with Windows Server 2019 8. Remote Access 9. Hardening and Security 10. Server Core 11. PowerShell 12. Redundancy in Windows Server 2019 13. Containers and Nano Server 14. Hyper-V 15. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2019 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix: Answers to the end-of-chapter Questions

Summary

In Windows Server 2019, we see in multiple places that administration via PowerShell is the recommended path for interacting with our servers. Because the management GUIs are now just shells running PowerShell scripts and the default installation option for Windows Server is Server Core, we can assume that headless, command line-oriented servers are expected to be our servers of the future. Even though PowerShell has been at the core of our operating system functionality since Server 2012, I believe that so far PowerShell has been viewed by most admins as simply an alternative way of managing servers. "Yeah, I know it exists and that I should start using it, and the scripting looks pretty cool, but I can still do anything I want to with the old Command Prompt or my mouse button." That old mentality is quickly changing.

Now that we are experiencing an onset of new technologies, such as DSC, we can see that PowerShell is starting to develop functionality that simply...

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