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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)

Chapter 4: Working with Certificates

Understanding certificates used to be something that many people avoided. For many facets of IT, you can avoid dealing with them. They were for the networking team, not anybody doing development or desktop support. However, times have changed, and a solid understanding of the common certificate types is quickly becoming an ability that anyone in support should possess. More and more, security has become focused on certificates and with the exponential increase in the amount of applications that are served via the web, understanding the certificates that protect these services is more important than ever.

Almost anyone who has set up a website has dealt with SSL certificates from a public Certification Authority (CA), but did you know that you can be your own CA? That you can issue certificates to the machines in your network, right from your own CA server? Follow along as we explore some of the capabilities of Windows Server 2019 while running...