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Mastering Windows Server 2019, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Jordan Krause
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Mastering Windows Server 2019, Third Edition - Third Edition

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

Written by a nine-time Microsoft MVP award winner with over twenty years of experience working in IT, Mastering Windows Server 2019 is a hands-on guide for anyone looking to keep their skills up to date. This third edition comes with four new chapters to provide you with the in-depth knowledge needed to implement and use this operating system in any environment. Centralized management, monitoring, and configuration of servers are key to an efficient IT department. This book delves into multiple methods for quickly managing all your servers from a ‘single pane of glass' — the ability to monitor different servers across a network using Server Manager, Windows PowerShell, and even Windows Admin Center — from anywhere. Despite the focus on Windows Server 2019 LTSC, you will still explore containers and Nano Server, which are more related to the SAC of server releases. This additional coverage will give you insights into all aspects of using Windows Server 2019 in your environment. This book covers a range of remote access technologies available in this operating system, teaches management of PKI and certificates, and empowers you to virtualize your datacenter with Hyper-V. You will also discover the tools and software included with Windows Server 2019 that assist in the inevitable troubleshooting of problems that crop up.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index
Appendix: Answers to the end-of-chapter Questions

Setting up a failover cluster

We are going to take a few minutes to set up a small cluster of servers so that you can see the management tools and the places that have to be visited to accomplish this. I have now backed out all of the NLB config on my WEB1 and WEB2 servers that we set up earlier so that they are just simple web servers at the moment, once again with no redundancy between them. Let's set up our first failover cluster and add both of these servers into that cluster.

Building the servers

We have two servers already running with Windows Server 2019 installed. Nothing special has been configured on these servers, but I have added the File Server role to both of them because, eventually, I will utilize these as a cluster of file servers. The key point here is that you should have the servers as identical as possible, with the roles already installed that you intend to make use of within the cluster.

One other note during the building phase: if possible...