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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Thomas Lee
Book Image

Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Thomas Lee

Overview of this book

Windows Server 2019 is the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship server operating system. It also comes with PowerShell Version 5.1 and offers a number of additional features that IT professionals will find useful. This book is designed to help you learn how to use PowerShell and manage the core roles, features, and services of Windows Server 2019. You will begin by creating a PowerShell Administrative Environment that features updated versions of PowerShell, the Windows Management Framework, .NET Framework, and third-party modules. Next, you will learn to use PowerShell to set up and configure Windows Server 2019 networking and understand how to manage objects in the Active Directory (AD) environment. The book will also guide you in setting up a host to utilize containers and deploying containers. Further along, you will be able to implement different mechanisms to achieve Desired State Configuration. The book will then get you up to speed with Azure infrastructure, in addition to helping you get to grips with setting up virtual machines (VMs), websites, and file share on Azure. In the concluding chapters, you will be able to deploy some powerful tools to diagnose and resolve issues with Windows Server 2019. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with a number of useful tips and tricks to automate your Windows environment with PowerShell.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Configuring DNS servers, zones, and resource records


In Chapter 3, Managing Windows Active Directory, in the Installing Active Directory with DNS recipe, you installed a DNS server as part of the installation of AD. This enabled DC1 to be an initial DNS server that provided a home for the various DNS records that were created by AD for the Reskit.Org domain. Adding a DHCP scope with DHCP options that specify 10.10.10.10 (the IP address of DC1.Reskit.Org) means that DHCP clients use DC1 as their DNS server (and register their IP addresses with DC1).

After you perform these two recipes, DHCP clients receive IP address configuration, which includes a DNS server. Thus, DHCP clients can easily resolve IP address for each other and for the domain forest infrastructure (DNS resolution provides AD clients with IP address details for the domain controller and global catalog servers).

The DC installation process, combined with DNS auto registration, means that basic DNS operations just work for DHCP...