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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)

Creating an auto-enrollment policy

Our certification authority server is configured and running, and we can successfully issue certificates to the client machines. Great! Now let's pretend we have a new project on our plates, and one of the requirements for this project is that all of the computers in your network need to have a copy of this new machine certificate that we have created. Uh oh, that sounds like a lot of work. Even though the process for requesting one of these certificates is very quick—only a handful of seconds on each workstation—if you had to do that individually on a couple of thousand machines, you are talking about a serious period of time needing to be spent on this process. Furthermore, in many cases, the certificates that you issue will only be valid for one year. Does this mean I am facing an extreme amount of administrative work every...