If you have administered or helped support a VPN connectivity solution in the past, you are probably more than familiar with setting up VPN connection profiles on client computers. In an environment where VPN is utilized as the remote access solution, what I commonly observe is that the VPN profile creation process is usually a manual step that needs to be taken by human hands, following the user's first login to the computer. This is inefficient and easily forgotten. With tools existing in your Windows Server 2016, you can automate the creation of these VPN connections on the client computers. Let's use Group Policy to create these profiles for us during user login.
Windows Server 2016 Cookbook
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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook
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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
Free Chapter
Learning the Interface
Core Infrastructure Tasks
Security and Networking
Working with Certificates
Internet Information Services
Remote Access
Remote Desktop Services
Monitoring and Backup
Group Policy
File Services and Data Control
Nano Server and Server Core
Customer Reviews