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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause

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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

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By: Jordan Krause

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Overview of this book

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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Learning the Interface

Introduction

Shutting down or restarting the server

Launching Administrative Tools

Using WinKey + X for quick admin tasks

Using the search function to launch applications quickly

Managing remote servers from a single pane with Server Manager

Using PowerShell to accomplish any function in Windows Server

Installing a role or feature

Administering Server 2016 from a Windows 10 machine

Identifying useful keyboard shortcuts in Server 2016

Setting your PowerShell Execution Policy

Building and executing your first PowerShell script

Searching for PowerShell cmdlets with Get-Help

Core Infrastructure Tasks

Introduction

Configuring a combination Domain Controller, DNS server, and DHCP server

Adding a second Domain Controller

Organizing your computers with Organizational Units

Creating an A or AAAA record in DNS

Creating and using a CNAME record in DNS

Creating a DHCP scope to assign addresses to computers

Creating a DHCP reservation for a specific server or resource

Pre-staging a computer account in Active Directory

Using PowerShell to create a new Active Directory user

Using PowerShell to view system uptime

Internet Information Services

Introduction

Installing the Web Server role with PowerShell

Launching your first website

Changing the port on which your website runs

Adding encryption to your website

Using a Certificate Signing Request to acquire your SSL certificate

Moving an SSL certificate from one server to another

Rebinding your renewed certificates automatically

Hosting multiple websites on your IIS server

Using host headers to manage multiple websites on a single IP address

Remote Desktop Services

Introduction

Building a single server Remote Desktop Services environment

Adding an additional RDSH server to your RDS environment

Installing applications on a Remote Desktop Session Host server

Disabling the redirection of local resources

Shadowing another session in RDS

Installing a printer driver to use with redirection

Removing an RD Session Host server from use for maintenance

Publishing WordPad with RemoteApp

Tracking user logins with Logon/Logoff scripts

Monitoring and Backup

Introduction

Using Server Manager as a quick monitoring tool

Using the new Task Manager to its full potential

Evaluating system performance with Windows Performance Monitor

Using Format-List to modify PowerShell data output

Configuring a full system backup using Windows Server Backup

Recovering data from a Windows backup file

Using IP Address Management to keep track of your used IP addresses

Checking for viruses in Windows Server 2016

Group Policy

Introduction

Creating and assigning a new Group Policy Object

Mapping network drives with Group Policy

Redirecting the My Documents folder to a network share

Creating a VPN connection with Group Policy

Creating a printer connection with Group Policy

Using Group Policy to enforce an Internet proxy server

Viewing the settings currently enabled inside a GPO

Viewing the GPOs currently assigned to a computer

Backing up and restoring GPOs

Plugging in ADMX and ADML templates

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