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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

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Published in Sep 2017

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ISBN-13 9781787122048

Pages 660 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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System Administration

Authors (2):

Thomas Lee

Ed Goad

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgment

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. What's New in PowerShell and Windows Server

2. Implementing Nano Server

3. Managing Windows Updates

4. Managing Printers

5. Managing Server Backup

6. Managing Performance

7. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2016

8. Managing Windows Networking Services

9. Managing Network Shares

10. Managing Internet Information Server

11. Managing Hyper-V

12. Managing Azure

13. Using Desired State Configuration

Implementing a DSC web-based pull server

Deploying a DSC web-based pull server is more complex than deploying an SMB pull server. The SMB-based pull server is simple: just create a couple of shares and place the relevant files on that share. The web server approach requires you to also load IIS, install the DSC service, and configure the service, as well as placing the MOF files, resources, and any relevant checksums on the web server. Of course, in both cases, you need to configure each node's LCM.

You deploy a web based pull server to provide a pull client with both resources and configuration MOF files. Unlike an SMB-based pull server, a web-based pull server also provides reporting capabilities enabling a pull client to report status back to the reporting server. Reporting is not available using an SMB-based pull server.

To simplify the creation of a web-based DSC pull server, you can use the xPSDesiredStateConfiguration module DSC resource. You download this resource from PSGallery. This...

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Authors (2)

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee is a consultant/trainer/writer based in the UK and has been in the IT business since the late 1960s. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, Thomas joined ComShare where he was a systems programmer building the Commander II time-sharing operating system, a forerunner of today's cloud computing paradigm. In the mid-1970s, he moved to ICL to work on the VME/K operating system. After a sabbatical in 1980/81, he joined Accenture, leaving in 1988 to run his own consulting and training business, which is still active today. Thomas holds numerous Microsoft certifications, including MCSE (one of the first in the world) and later versions, MCT (25 years), and was awarded Microsoft's MVP award 17 times.

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Ed Goad

Ed Goad is a systems architect who has been working in various roles in the IT field for 16 years. He first became interested in scripting and automation when presented with a task to uninstall software from over 1,000 systems with limited time and resources. He has worked with scripting and automation on multiple platforms and languages including PowerShell, VBscript, C#, and BASH scripting. Ed currently holds multiple Microsoft certifications, most recently including the Microsoft Certified IT Professional Enterprise Administrator. Additional non-Microsoft certifications include VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), EMC Proven Professional, Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE), and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). Ed is currently on a sabbatical and volunteering full time at the Amor Fe y Esperanza school in Honduras(http://www.afehonduras.org). There he is teaching computer and math classes to the kids who live and work in the garbage dump outside of the capital city of Tegucigalpa.

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