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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

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

Exploring the Nano Server console


After getting your first Nano Server up-and-running, a logical next question to ask is What now?. With a traditional server you would set things such as the hostname and IP address, and probably join it to your domain. More than likely, once your Nano Server is established you will be heading down into the final recipes of this chapter to figure out the best ways to remotely administer this new machine, but until you have networking and domain membership established, you aren't going to be able to do much with the remote management tools. So is there any kind of console access on a Nano Server? Yes, but it is very limited. The tool that is presented in the console is called the Nano Server Recovery Console, and the capabilities provided by this tool are the focus of our current recipe.

Getting ready

We are going to be working from the console of the new Nano Server we just finished building. This server is plugged into our corporate network, which is running...