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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

<p>Windows Server 2016 is an operating system designed to run on servers. It supports enterprise-level data storage, communications, management, and applications. This book contains specially selected, detailed help on core, essential administrative tasks of Windows Server 2016.</p> <p>This book starts by helping you to navigate the interface of Windows Server 2016, and quickly shifts gears to implementing roles that are necessarily in any Microsoft-centric datacenter.</p> <p>This book will also help you leverage the web services platform built into Windows Server 2016, available to anyone who runs this latest and greatest Server operating system. Further, you will also learn to compose optimal Group Policies and monitor system performance and IP address management.</p> <p>This book will be a handy quick-reference guide for any Windows Server administrator, providing easy to read, step-by-step instructions for many common administrative tasks that will be part of any Server Administrator’s job description as they administer their Windows Server 2016 powered servers.</p> <p>The material in the book has been selected from the content of Packt's Windows Server 2016 Cookbook by Jordan Krause to provide a specific focus on key Windows Server administration tasks.</p>

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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Contributors
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Learning the Interface
Learning the Interface
Introduction
Shutting down or restarting the server
Launching Administrative Tools
Using WinKey + X for quick admin tasks
Using the search function to launch applications quickly
Managing remote servers from a single pane with Server Manager
Using PowerShell to accomplish any function in Windows Server
Installing a role or feature
Administering Server 2016 from a Windows 10 machine
Identifying useful keyboard shortcuts in Server 2016
Setting your PowerShell Execution Policy
Building and executing your first PowerShell script
Searching for PowerShell cmdlets with Get-Help
2
Core Infrastructure Tasks
Core Infrastructure Tasks
Introduction
Configuring a combination Domain Controller, DNS server, and DHCP server
Adding a second Domain Controller
Organizing your computers with Organizational Units
Creating an A or AAAA record in DNS
Creating and using a CNAME record in DNS
Creating a DHCP scope to assign addresses to computers
Creating a DHCP reservation for a specific server or resource
Pre-staging a computer account in Active Directory
Using PowerShell to create a new Active Directory user
Using PowerShell to view system uptime
3
Internet Information Services
Internet Information Services
Introduction
Installing the Web Server role with PowerShell
Launching your first website
Changing the port on which your website runs
Adding encryption to your website
Using a Certificate Signing Request to acquire your SSL certificate
Moving an SSL certificate from one server to another
Rebinding your renewed certificates automatically
Hosting multiple websites on your IIS server
Using host headers to manage multiple websites on a single IP address
4
Remote Desktop Services
Remote Desktop Services
Introduction
Building a single server Remote Desktop Services environment
Adding an additional RDSH server to your RDS environment
Installing applications on a Remote Desktop Session Host server
Disabling the redirection of local resources
Shadowing another session in RDS
Installing a printer driver to use with redirection
Removing an RD Session Host server from use for maintenance
Publishing WordPad with RemoteApp
Tracking user logins with Logon/Logoff scripts
5
Monitoring and Backup
Monitoring and Backup
Introduction
Using Server Manager as a quick monitoring tool
Using the new Task Manager to its full potential
Evaluating system performance with Windows Performance Monitor
Using Format-List to modify PowerShell data output
Configuring a full system backup using Windows Server Backup
Recovering data from a Windows backup file
Using IP Address Management to keep track of your used IP addresses
Checking for viruses in Windows Server 2016
6
Group Policy
Group Policy
Introduction
Creating and assigning a new Group Policy Object
Mapping network drives with Group Policy
Redirecting the My Documents folder to a network share
Creating a VPN connection with Group Policy
Creating a printer connection with Group Policy
Using Group Policy to enforce an Internet proxy server
Viewing the settings currently enabled inside a GPO
Viewing the GPOs currently assigned to a computer
Backing up and restoring GPOs
Plugging in ADMX and ADML templates
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Index
Index

Using the new Task Manager to its full potential

We have all used Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open Task Manager and attempt to close problematic applications. With the Task Manager provided by Windows Server 2016, we can do much more right from that same interface. Let's work through this recipe to explore some of the new things that can be done to take full advantage of this tool.

Getting ready

We are logged into a Windows Server 2016 server. This is the only system required for our recipe.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to learn a little more about Task Manager:

  1. Right-click on the Taskbar and choose to open Task Manager. This is an alternate way to get into the utility, other than using the Ctrl + Alt + Delete key combination. I prefer using the Taskbar right-click in fact because, when using the keyboard, it is easy to open the wrong Task Manager when you are using a virtualization console or RDP to administer remote servers.
  1. You are now looking at the simple version of Task Manager, where you...
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