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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By : EDRICK GOAD
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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By: EDRICK GOAD

Overview of this book

Automating server tasks allows administrators to repeatedly perform the same, or similar, tasks over and over again. With PowerShell scripts, you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring IIS logging


By default, IIS logs nearly every transaction clients perform against the server. This is a great repository of information when debugging issues or when trying to profile your users and identify which resources are popular, which are not popular, and which are generating errors.

This recipe will cover how to configure IIS logging.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to configure IIS logging:

  1. Change the IIS logging directory:

    Set-ItemProperty 'IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site' -Name logFile.directory -Value 'C:\Logs\IIS'
  2. Change the logging type:

    Set-ItemProperty 'IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site' -Name logFile.logFormat 'W3C'
  3. Change logging frequency:

    Set-ItemProperty 'IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site' -Name logFile.period -Value Weekly
  4. Change logging to use a maximum size:

    Set-ItemProperty 'IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site' -Name logFile.period -Value MaxSize
    Set-ItemProperty 'IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site' -Name logFile.truncateSize 9000000
  5. Disable logging:

    Set-ItemProperty 'IIS:\Sites...