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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

This hands-on Cookbook is stuffed full of practical recipes that will help you handle the essential administrative tasks in Windows Server 2016. You’ll start by familiarizing yourself with the look and feel of Windows Server 2016, and will then learn how to navigate through some daily tasks using the graphical interface. You will see how to compose optimal Group Policies and facilitate task automation with PowerShell 5.0 scripting. We will also take a look at the functions available to provide remote network access to your traveling users, and explore the much anticipated Nano Server and Hyper-V built-in integration support that is brand new in Windows Server 2016. By the end of this book, you will know how to take your Windows Server 2016-powered server and turn it into any common infrastructure role that might be required in your company.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 12. Working with Hyper-V

Today's server administrators eat, sleep, and breathe virtual machines. They are flooding our computing infrastructure, quickly replacing physical servers in all facets of our technology. Thankfully, entrance into the world of virtualization is quite easy once you know which pieces of the puzzle need to work together in order to start building and hosting virtual machines. I have worked with many server administrators who manage the virtual machines themselves once they are online, but in bigger organizations it is usually someone on the backend who is creating these VMs in the first place. This means that even someone who works with Windows servers every day might not have a lot of experience with using the Hyper-V Management Console, and this is the reason why a chapter about Hyper-V itself is important to include in this book on Windows Server 2016. This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a Windows Server that runs Hyper-V

  • Creating a Hyper...