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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Thomas Lee
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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Thomas Lee

Overview of this book

With a foreword from PowerShell creator Jeffrey Snover, this heavily updated edition is designed to help you learn how to use PowerShell 7.1 effectively and manage the core roles, features, and services of Windows Server in an enterprise setting. All scripts are compatible with both Window Server 2022 and 2019. This latest edition equips you with over 100 recipes you'll need in day-to-day work, covering a wide range of fundamental and more advanced use cases. We look at how to install and configure PowerShell 7.1, along with useful new features and optimizations, and how the PowerShell compatibility solution bridges the gap to older versions of PowerShell. Topics include using PowerShell to manage networking and DHCP in Windows Server, objects in Active Directory, Hyper-V, and Azure. Debugging is crucial, so the book shows you how to use some powerful tools to diagnose and resolve issues with Windows Server.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Creating a Hyper-V VM

Creating a Hyper-V VM is relatively straightforward and consists of a few simple steps. First, you need to create the VM itself inside Hyper-V. Then, you create the VM's virtual hard drive and add it to the VM. You may also wish to adjust the number of processors and memory for the VM and set the VM's DVD drive contents. Once you have created your VM, you need to install the VM's operating system (OS). You have numerous options regarding how you deploy Windows (or Linux) in a Hyper-V VM.

The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit, a free product from Microsoft, contains various tools to assist in the automation of deploying Windows. These include Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM), Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (Windows ICD), Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM), User State Migration Tool (USMT), and a lot more. For more information on the tools and deploying Windows, see https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/deployment...