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Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Mark Henderson, Jordan Krause
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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)

Switching between Server Core and Desktop Experience?

At what point do you need to decide whether your brand new server is going to be Server Core or a full Desktop Experience version with the traditional Windows graphical interface? It would be common sense to make this decision during the operating system installation process, right? Where you choose from the installer which version of the operating system you are putting into place? You are exactly right, except that in previous versions of Windows Server, we could switch a live server back and forth between the two modes. If you had a full graphical version of a server running and wanted to change it over to Server Core to get some enhanced security benefits, you could run a command and do just that. And the same was true in reverse; if you were running Server Core and couldn't figure out how to configure something from the command interface, you could run another command that would change it over into the GUI version of the...