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Mastering Windows Server 2019 - Second Edition

By : Jordan Krause
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Mastering Windows Server 2019 - Second Edition

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

Mastering Windows Server 2019 – Second Edition covers all of the essential information needed to implement and utilize this latest-and-greatest platform as the core of your data center computing needs. You will begin by installing and managing Windows Server 2019, and by clearing up common points of confusion surrounding the versions and licensing of this new product. Centralized management, monitoring, and configuration of servers is key to an efficient IT department, and you will discover multiple methods for quickly managing all of your servers from a single pane of glass. To this end, you will spend time inside Server Manager, PowerShell, and even the new Windows Admin Center, formerly known as Project Honolulu. Even though this book is focused on Windows Server 2019 LTSC, we will still discuss containers and Nano Server, which are more commonly related to the SAC channel of the server platform, for a well-rounded exposition of all aspects of using Windows Server in your environment. We also discuss the various remote access technologies available in this operating system, as well as guidelines for virtualizing your data center with Hyper-V. By the end of this book, you will have all the ammunition required to start planning for, implementing, and managing Windows.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Advanced Threat Analytics

In my opinion, one of the coolest security features to come out of Microsoft over the past few years is Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA), and yet I hardly hear anyone talking about it. It's not a feature or function built into the Windows Server OS, not yet anyway, but is an on-premises software that rides on top of Windows to produce some amazing functionality. Essentially, what ATA does is monitor all of your Active Directory traffic, and warns you of dangerous or unusual behavior in real time, immediately as it is happening.

The idea of ATA is pretty simple to understand and makes so much common sense that it's something we are all going to wonder why it took so long to put into place. The reason for that, though, is because under the hood the processing and learning that ATA is doing is very advanced. Yes, I said learning. This is the coolest...