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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Thomas Lee, Ed Goad
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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Thomas Lee, Ed Goad

Overview of this book

This book showcases several ways that Windows administrators can use to automate and streamline their job. You'll start with the PowerShell and Windows Server fundamentals, where you'll become well versed with PowerShell and Windows Server features. In the next module, Core Windows Server 2016, you'll implement Nano Server, manage Windows updates, and implement troubleshooting and server inventories. You'll then move on to the Networking module, where you'll manage Windows network services and network shares. The last module covers Azure and DSC, where you will use Azure on PowerShell and DSC to easily maintain Windows servers.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Configuring IIS for SSL


Traffic between a web browser and a web server on the internet or even within a corporate intranet is open and can be intercepted. To avoid the data being compromised, you can make use of protocols built into your web browser and IIS to provide encryption as well as authentication.

In the 1990's, Netscape Communications developed a protocol that provided the necessary security, the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL V1 was never commercially released, but SSL V2 and SSL V3 were developed, released, but are now deprecated as unsafe.

Transport Layer Security (TLS) was developed openly as the next version of SSL. TLS V1 is essentially SSL V3.1. In 2014, Google identified a serious vulnerability in both SSL V3 and TLS V1. That leaves TLS 2 as the best protocol to deploy and it is the only one installed by default with IIS in Windows Server 2013.

These days, SSL as a protocol is being deprecated in favour of TLS. Most major web sites no longer actually use the SSL protocol...