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Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Mark Henderson, Jordan Krause
Book Image

Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Mark Henderson, Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

Do you want to get up and running with essential administrative tasks in Windows Server 2019? This second edition of the Windows Server 2019 Cookbook is packed with practical recipes that will help you do just that. The book starts by taking you through the basics that you need to know to get a Windows Server operating system working, before teaching you how to navigate through daily tasks using the upgraded graphical user interface (GUI). You'll then learn how to compose an optimal Group Policy and perform task automation with PowerShell scripting. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with faster app innovation, improved Windows security measures, and hybrid cloud environments. After you’ve explored the functions available to provide remote network access to your users, you’ll cover the new Hyper-V enhancements. Finally, this Windows Server book will guide you through practical recipes relating to Azure integration and important tips for how to manage a Windows Server environment seamlessly. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with Windows Server 2019 essentials and have the skills you need to configure Windows services and implement best practices for securing a Windows Server environment.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Managing System Insights

The defaults that come with System Insights might be fine for some predictions, but you may be looking for predictions with a higher degree of granularity. Alternatively, you may wish to run the predictions more often, or in some cases ignore certain days from your predictions.

Maybe you have some actions you want to complete when a certain prediction status happens; for example, spinning up additional web servers if System Insights predicts an overload. Well, with System Insights, we can also do these things.

Getting ready

We need to have a server being managed by System Insights – that's it.

How to do it…

  1. Locate the server you wish to manage in Windows Admin Center and click on its link.
  2. In the left-hand navigation, find System Insights.
  3. Click on an insight you want to manage. In this example, we're going to look at Networking capacity forecasting.
  4. Click the Settings button at the top of the Insights...