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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)

Adding additional roles to DSC

So far, we've not seen anything particularly special about DSC. You could be forgiven for thinking that it is just another (very complicated) way of installing basic Windows roles. In this recipe, we will take this a bit further and look at some non-typical things we can do with DSC: we're going to configure our entire web server, and we're going to do it all using DSC providers.

We've already configured this web server several times in this book: we did it via the IIS console, then via PowerShell, then again as a container. Now, we'll do it via DSC.

Getting ready

To carry out this recipe, you need to have completed the previous recipe. We will be using the same Windows Server 2019 machine and building on its DSC configuration.

How to do it…

On your Windows Server machine, do the following:

  1. If not already open, open C:\DSC\PacktWebServer.ps1 in Windows PowerShell ISE.
  2. We should have our previous...