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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)

Pushing a DSC configuration to multiple servers

So far, we've seen various things we can do with DSC, but we've been doing them all on the server itself, and we've been doing it with a bunch of long-winded commands. In this recipe, we'll look at how we can apply a DSC configuration to multiple servers at the same time, and how we can do it from our Windows 10 machine so that we don't need to log on to each one of our servers manually to apply it.

Getting ready

For this, you'll need a Windows 10 computer and at least two servers to apply the DSC configuration to. We've been using a server called web03 for the previous recipes, so I'm going to extend this to web01 and web02 as well—for a total of three servers.

It's important that the servers you choose to do this on are not running anything for production, as this could potentially remove or break production websites running the servers.

How to do it…

To complete...