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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)

Chapter 12: Server Core

Anyone working with Windows servers should be familiar with Server Core, or at least the name. As we mentioned back in Chapter 3, Networking, Server Core is an alternative installation method for Windows Server 2019. It enables you to build a Windows server with significantly lower CPU, memory, and hard drive requirements. We've seen a fair bit of remote management already in this book and Server Core is how this has been possible. It is upon this shift in management mindset that many of our recipes will be focused today.

I feel that this chapter is important to include because I have the opportunity to work in new customer environments and get a feel for the way that they establish their networks and servers all the time. Do you know what I find? That everyone is running their Windows servers in the full GUI-based Desktop Experience mode. Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with that, but the fact that Server Core has been in existence since Windows...