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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 BranchCache


BranchCache is a technology designed by Microsoft to ease file and website access in remote branch offices. These sites traditionally utilize slow WAN links, resulting in slow access to centralized services.

Similar to a proxy server, BranchCache intelligently caches information requests across a WAN link. Once in the cache, subsequent requests are fulfilled by the cache instead of resending the information across the network.

There are two types of BranchCache: file servers and web servers. As the names suggest BranchCache for file servers caches information accessed from CIFS shares, while BranchCache for web servers caches information accessed from web sites. Windows clients utilize group policies to define if they should use BranchCache and how to discover the BranchCache resources.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will be working in an Active Directory environment with a remote site similar to the one shown in the next figure. In the corporate office, there is a...