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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)

Enabling Network Load Balancing on your DirectAccess servers

DirectAccess is designed so that you always get a single server environment up and running first before you start tinkering with arrays or load balancing. This way, you can validate that all of the environmental factors are in place and working and that you can successfully build DA tunnels from your client computers before introducing any further complexity into the design. Once established, however, it is a common next step to look into turning up another new server and creating some redundancy for your new remote access solution.

While joining two similar servers together to share the load is commonly called clustering, and sometimes I hear admins refer to it as such in the DirectAccess world, load balancing DA servers together actually has nothing to do with Windows clustering. When you install both the remote access role and the Network Load Balancing feature on your remote access servers, you have already equipped...