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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

Getting started using Azure with PowerShell

There are two fundamental things you need to do before you can start managing Azure features using PowerShell. The first is to obtain an Azure subscription. The second is to obtain the cmdlets you use to access Azure and Office 365's features.

Azure is a commercial service – each feature you use potentially has a real-world cost attached, which Microsoft bases on your usage of Azure resources. For example, with an Azure VM, you would pay to have the VM running, and there are additional charges for the VM's virtual disk storage and network traffic in and out of your VM.

The charges for Office 365 and other SaaS offerings, on the other hand, are user-based – a given user can use lots of emails, for example, without incurring any additional charges. For details on costs for Azure, see https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/, and for details on Microsoft 365 charges, see https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365...