Various breaches and vulnerabilities over the past few years have brought security to the forefront of all IT Administrators' minds. In a Windows Server 2016 environment, there are many functions you can enable to lock down security on your own network. Let's explore some of these functions, as well as practice with some tools and tricks that can help us to better understand and navigate our own networks. We will also take a look at some common networking tasks that will help you out in your day-to-day work. In this chapter, we will look at the following recipes:
Requiring complex passwords in your network
Using Windows Firewall with Advanced Security to block unnecessary traffic
Changing the RDP port on your server to hide access
Multi-homing your Windows Server 2016
Adding a static route into the Windows routing table
Using Telnet to test a connection and network flow
Using the Pathping command to trace network traffic
Setting up NIC Teaming
Renaming and domain...