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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Thomas Lee, Ed Goad
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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Thomas Lee, Ed Goad

Overview of this book

This book showcases several ways that Windows administrators can use to automate and streamline their job. You'll start with the PowerShell and Windows Server fundamentals, where you'll become well versed with PowerShell and Windows Server features. In the next module, Core Windows Server 2016, you'll implement Nano Server, manage Windows updates, and implement troubleshooting and server inventories. You'll then move on to the Networking module, where you'll manage Windows network services and network shares. The last module covers Azure and DSC, where you will use Azure on PowerShell and DSC to easily maintain Windows servers.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Configuring a central certificate store


If you are hosting numerous secure servers on a variety of hosts (physical or virtual), you may find that certificate management can be challenging. Each time you add a new IIS host into your infrastructure, you need to ensure all the correct certificates are in place and the correct web binding (binding the certificates to IIS) is in place for each secure site. Additionally, you need to deal with certificate expiry and renewing certificates that expire across each IIS server that utilizes those certificates.

Windows Server 2012 added a new feature known as the Central Certificate Store (CCS). This feature allows certificates to be stored in a central location such as on an SMB file share. You then configure IIS to make use of the central store, rather than using the local certificate stores as you did in the Configure IIS for SSL recipe.

In this recipe, you are going to setup SRV1 to use a new share on DC1 to hold the central certificate share. You...