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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By : EDRICK GOAD
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By: EDRICK GOAD

Overview of this book

Automating server tasks allows administrators to repeatedly perform the same, or similar, tasks over and over again. With PowerShell scripts, you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring IIS for SSL


The most common way of securing web traffic is to use SSL encryption. SSL signs and encrypts traffic between a web server and client in a way that is difficult for an outsider to view, change, or impersonate. If you have ever purchased something online, the web page that accepted your credit card details was likely encrypted using SSL.

In this recipe we will cover how to configure an IIS site to use SSL encryption.

Getting ready

Two things are required to use SSL encryption: a certificate capable of encrypting SSL traffic and a website configured to support SSL. If the website will be publicly facing, it is suggested you use an SSL certificate from a public Certificate Authority that is by default trusted by most web browsers.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to configure IIS for SSL:

  1. Request an SSL certificate from your Certificate Authority.

  2. Install the certificate in the Certificates (Local Computer)\Personal\Certificates store. Assuming you are using an...