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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By : EDRICK GOAD
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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

Promoting content in websites


Once our three-tier website scheme is set up, the next step is to configure the content promotion method. This recipe shows how to promote content between the various environments.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes the development/staging/production website configuration created in the prior recipe.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to promote content in websites:

  1. Copy the content between the web servers:

    Copy-Item -Path \\web1\wwwDev -Destination \\web2\wwwDev -Verbose -Recurse -Force 
  2. Copy the files from development to staging:

    Invoke-Command -ComputerName web1, web2 -ScriptBlock {
        Copy-Item -Path C:\inetpub\wwwDev -Destination C:\inetpub\wwwStage -Verbose -Force -Recurse
    } 
  3. Copy files from staging to production:

    Invoke-Command -ComputerName web1, web2 -ScriptBlock {
        Copy-Item -Path C:\inetpub\wwwStage -Destination C:\inetpub\wwwRoot -Verbose -Force -Recurse
    } 

How it works...

The first step copies files between the web servers in order to synchronize...