$3.5 million dollars. For anyone who read that in the voice of Dr. Evil, my hat goes off to you. For anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about, you may have had a sheltered childhood. Joking aside, that number is significant to IT security. Why? Because $3.5 million dollars is the average cost to a business when they are the victim of a data breach. I recently heard this and other scary statistics at a Microsoft conference in Redmond. Some other statistics that can be used in order to get approval for an increase in your security budget—the average number of days an attacker resides in your network before detection is 243. That is the better part of a year that they camp out before doing anything malicious! What are they typically doing during those 243 days? Siphoning all of your data, bit by bit out the back door. Another number is 76%—as in the percentage of network intrusions that happen as a result of compromised user credentials. Furthermore, it...
Mastering Windows Server 2016
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Overview of this book
Windows Server 2016 is the server operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, developed concurrently with Windows 10. With Windows Server 2016, Microsoft has gotten us thinking outside of the box for what it means to be a system administration, and comes with some interesting new capabilities. These are exciting times to be or to become a server administrator!
This book covers all aspects of administration level tasks and activities required to gain expertise in Microsoft Windows Server 2016. You will begin by getting familiar and comfortable navigating around in the interface. Next, you will learn to install and manage Windows Server 2016 and discover some tips for adapting to the new server management ideology that is all about centralized monitoring and configuration.
You will deep dive into core Microsoft infrastructure technologies that the majority of companies are going to run on Server 2016. Core technologies such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Certificate Services, File Services, and more. We will talk about networking in this new operating system, giving you a networking toolset that is useful for everyday troubleshooting and maintenance. Also discussed is the idea of Software Defined Networking. You will later walk through different aspects of certificate administration in Windows Server 2016. Three important and crucial areas to cover in the Remote Access role -- DirectAccess, VPN, and the Web Application Proxy -- are also covered.
You will then move into security functions and benefits that are available in Windows Server 2016. Also covered is the brand new and all-important Nano Server!
We will incorporate PowerShell as a central platform for performing many of the functions that are discussed in this book, including a chapter dedicated to the new PowerShell 5.0. Additionally, you will learn about the new built-in integration for Docker with this latest release of Windows Server 2016. The book ends with a discussion and information on virtualizing your datacenter with Hyper-V.
By the end of this book, you will have all the ammunition required to start planning for and implementing Windows Server 2016.
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Windows Server 2016
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with Windows Server 2016
Installing and Managing Windows Server 2016
Core Infrastructure Services
Certificates in Windows Server 2016
Networking with Windows Server 2016
Enabling Your Mobile Workforce
Hardening and Security
Tiny Servers
Redundancy in Windows Server 2016
Learning PowerShell 5.0
Application Containers and Docker
Virtualizing Your Datacenter with Hyper-V
Index
Customer Reviews