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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

<p>Windows Server 2016 is an operating system designed to run on servers. It supports enterprise-level data storage, communications, management, and applications. This book contains specially selected, detailed help on core, essential administrative tasks of Windows Server 2016.</p> <p>This book starts by helping you to navigate the interface of Windows Server 2016, and quickly shifts gears to implementing roles that are necessarily in any Microsoft-centric datacenter.</p> <p>This book will also help you leverage the web services platform built into Windows Server 2016, available to anyone who runs this latest and greatest Server operating system. Further, you will also learn to compose optimal Group Policies and monitor system performance and IP address management.</p> <p>This book will be a handy quick-reference guide for any Windows Server administrator, providing easy to read, step-by-step instructions for many common administrative tasks that will be part of any Server Administrator’s job description as they administer their Windows Server 2016 powered servers.</p> <p>The material in the book has been selected from the content of Packt's Windows Server 2016 Cookbook by Jordan Krause to provide a specific focus on key Windows Server administration tasks.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Launching your first website


Seems like a pretty logical first step; let's get a website started! Actually, you already have one, but it's pretty useless at the moment. As soon as you finished installing the IIS role, a standard website was started automatically so that you can verify everything is working as it should. Now we want to replace that default website with one of our own so that we can make some real use of this new server.

Getting ready

We will be accomplishing all work from our new Server 2016 web server. This one does happen to be domain joined, but that is not a requirement. You would be able to launch a website on a standalone, workgroup joined server just as easily.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to start your first website on this new IIS web server:

  1. Open Server Manager and drop down the Tools menu. Then click on Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
  2. In the left-hand window pane, expand the name of your server and click on the Sites folder.
  3. Right-click on Default Web...