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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

Active Directory

Each of you reading this book will have a different acquired skillset and level of experience with the Windows Server environment. As I mentioned previously, being able to make servers run the operating system is great and a very important first step for doing real work in your environment. But until you know and understand what the purposes behind the main roles available to run on Windows Server 2019 are, the only thing your new server does is consume electricity.

A server is intended to serve data. The kind of data that it serves and to what purpose depends entirely on what roles you determine the server must ... well ... serve. Appropriately, you must install roles within Windows Server 2019 to make it do something. We already know how to get roles installed onto our server but have not talked about any of the purposes behind these roles. Over the next few chapters, we will start looking into what I commonly refer to as the core infrastructural roles available...