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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 5. Internet Information Services

Websites and web services are used for everything these days. With the evolution of Cloud, we are accessing more and more via web browsers than we ever have before. The cloud can mean very different things to different people, but what I see most commonly in Enterprise is the creation of private clouds. This generally means a collection of web servers that are being used to serve up web applications for the company's user population to work from. Sometimes, the private cloud is onsite in a company's data center; sometimes it is in a co-location; and sometimes it is a combination of local data center and a true cloud web service provider such as Azure. Whatever defines a private cloud for you, one variable is the same. Your cloud includes web servers that need to be managed and administered.

For any Microsoft-centric shop, your web servers should be running Windows Server with the Internet Information Services (IIS) role installed. IIS is the website...