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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)

Organizing your computers with Organizational Units

AD is the structure in which all your user, computer, and server accounts reside. As you add new users and computers into your domain, they will be automatically placed into a generic OU (called an OU), which is a type of storage container. You could get away with leaving all your objects in their default locations, but there are a lot of advantages to putting a little time and effort into creating an organizational structure.

In this recipe, we will create some OUs inside Active Directory and move our existing objects into these OUs so that we can create some structure.

Getting ready

We will need a DC online for this recipe, which is a Server 2019 machine with the Active Directory Domain Services role installed. Specifically, I will be using the DC01 server that we prepped in the Configuring a combination Domain Controller, DNS server, and DHCP server recipe.

How to do it…

Let's get comfortable working...